Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Question #2

are there any curent situations in the world that relate to the novel? what are tehy, and how do they relate? does the novel shed any light on how current situations could be resolved or "fixed"?

The book describes how people begin to lose rooms for literature because of busy lives.
As technology develops, we get far from written copies of information. We don’t even know the importance of book since we use internet all the time. Adults and parents try to teach us the importance of books, but we children almost never get it.
In the story, people think ignorance is happiness. Not knowing about terrible things lead to a happy life. They banned books and made fire fighters to burn them all. Lacking education, people actually became happy in the fence of ignorance. Do you think it is better to be happy not knowing anything or little unhappy knowing things? You know you can search happiness knowing many things, too.
A woman dies in the fire with books, knowing the importance of the knowledge. Is there anyone who sacrificed for good in reality? I don’t really think so. We should learn from this woman. This woman, in an environment of ignorance and no books recognized the importance of books, as we didn’t when we were surrounded by the piles of books around us.
Technology development had made our lives a lot easier and comfortable. In the near future, it will develop a lot more, and maybe a same situation could happen in reality. Teenagers in the present should read this book and learn if they have chance.

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