Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury is a futuristic novel, taking
the reader to a time where books and thinking are outlawed.
In a time so dreadful where those who want to better
themselves by thinking, and by reading are outlaws as well.
Books and ideas are burned, books are burned physically,
where as ideas are burned from the mind. Bradbury uses
literary devices, such as symbolism, but it is the idea he
wants to convey that makes this novel so devastating.
Bradbury warns us of what may happen if we stop
expressing our ideas, and we let people take away our
books, and thoughts. Bradbury notices what has been going
on in the world, with regards to censorship, and book
burning in Germany, and McCarthyism in America. That is
what he is speaking out against. Bradbury is also a very
symbolic writer, he incorporates symbolism into his book.
Bradbury's use of symbolism throughout the novel makes the
book moving and powerful by using symbolism to reinforce
the ideas of......
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