Question #1

Question 1) What is the major theme of this novel? Why is this theme important to a teenager living in 2007?


The world in this book, “Fahrenheit 451,” is that the books influence a lot to the world and society. The Government in this story bans book because they make people think and it leads them to think about the government and iniquity of people and the government. Everything was different from past. I think this theme is important to a teenager because teenagers don’t read books much these days, and they do not understand the importance of reading and that the books have a lot of effect on to the society and peoples’ thoughts. I think that the author tried to tell his readers by writing a book about the society that is corrupted and let us feel that we have to read books and think, know about the past and be aware not to create the dreadful society like the story has by ourselves. In this book, it shows there are a lot of corruption and iniquity of the society because there are no books, the people do not read them, and the government banns it; and the reason for the governors banning it is that they know that books have a lot of effect on people to think, and if people know to think and know how it was like in the past, they will try to correct the governors and enhance the world they live in. In here, I can find that by governors not wanting the citizens to read, they are leading their society into a hell-like world, and if we do not read books and try to refuse to, it is possible that we can create a world like in the story.