Fahrenheit 451 is my favorite book. It’s a futuristic-type book where all books are banned and firefighters don’t stop fires. They start them to homes of people who have books. One of the most intense parts is when the main character, Montag, is affected by his job after they set fire to a woman’s house and she stays in the house and dies. That part really affected me too, because when I read this in my Novels class, we had to bring in our favorite book and I brought in my bible. After we read our favorite quote from the book, we then had to put our book in the middle of the circle. In the middle, though, was a picture of a camp fire. I had a hard time putting my bible in the middle, and so one of the guys took it and put it in the middle on the other side of the fire so that I couldn’t read it. That was when I felt a connection to the woman that died in the house. She stayed because she wanted to read. I feel that if I was in her place, I would have stayed to protect my bible. My faith is important to me.
Wow! That's an intense class experiment, Amanda! I was really touched by this novel, too, as I'm very touchy about the idea of censorship. Also, I'm a sci-fi geek, so I really liked some of the futuristic inventions (which are not so futuristic now).
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If there were no books, then how would we record things. I would not like to live within this book.
ReplyDeleteI'm a syfy freak my self and the way you describe this book makes me want to read and I'm not much on reading books. This is one that I need to put on my list of books.
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