Book power (Carolina)

I think Captain Beatty is saying that a book is like a weapon; because of all the ideas a book can hold. In their society they have been taught to fear books. Books hold the power; that the government is taking away from people. In my opinion the ideas are the bullets and the book is the gun. The books in their society may be a symbol of power. And what it seems like their government is trying to make everyone just about the exact same, so they’ll stop people from reading. If they read they’ll get ideas and from those ideas they make their own and start thinking for themselves.

            To me in the book for why it was easier to ban books than to teach people to think; was that maybe with their reliance on technology. With the people just relaying on technology they stopped thinking for themselves, when they have all that technology doing it for them. For example Mildred she doesn’t do anything but watch the parlor walls, that’s all she ever does I thinks that’s all she knows how to do. Once the books were banned they took control of the people because they don’t think for themselves and probably don’t care about book anymore, that was when their government made them fear books.

            I can see this happening to our society. People are starting to relay more on technology. In school you see more technology being used and less and less books being used as a source for education.  There has been books banned, and burned which are ways of censorship. I believe censorship is another way of stopping ideas from being shared. With technology advancing so fast, soon are society will be ruined by technology. Also like in the book our society will be dumbed down, and wont think for themselves anymore. We might even be controlled and have all books being banned. 

Fate is for dummies (Carolina)

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I think people can write their own destinies.  We have to understand that the decisions that we make can have good and/or bad consequences. We are free to carve our own path of life, even if our choices are good or bad because there is no right or wrong path. People don’t just and follow another’s path. We can’t just sit around like damsel in the stress waiting for someone. We have to take charge and make a difference for ourselves.

            Then there are people who believe in fate. I think people are the people that have it easy, well yet again everyone does have problems but some more than others and some less than others. But the people I mean are the ones that look at a situation and say this happen because we did this in other words karma, or they say it’s just fate it was already written. These people might be to my opinion a little dumb. Some of them do crazy things not all but some. They will go and go on crazy adventures and say it’s fate that sent them there, and their fate is to die. Yes everyone dies at some point but that doesn’t mean go do something stupid. They put their life on some called “fate”.  These people are the ones that think they cannot write their own destinies.