Banned Book Week

Read a Banned Book 2012 Week Focus Book: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The Charlotte Christian Family Law Group supports Banned Book Week 2012. Visit our site at northalabamadivorce.com or call us today at 256-233-2114 for assistance with any family law matter. Fahrenheit 451 Why the book was banned: The banning of Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's 1953 book about the evils of book banning and censorship, is one of those circular jokes that individuals see every once in a while. The initial complaint about the book was that the words “hell” and “damn” appeared in the novel, making it a corrupting force on society. Opponents then noted that one of the books burned was a Christian Bible and, thus, took the position that the author advocated burning Bibles—rather than the opposite (that he was attempting to show how bad censorship had become). Why the book should be read: Ray Bradbury is to be commended for having written the quintessential piece of literature that addresses the very dangers of censorship. The greater corruption comes from allowing the government to decide what should and should not be read. Quotes from Fahrenheit 451 • "There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing." Fahrenheit 451, Part 1 • "I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense." Fahrenheit 451, Part 2 • "What traitors books can be! You think they're backing you up, and they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives." Fahrenheit 451, Part 2 • "Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences." Fahrenheit 451, Part 3 • "The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt Time, that meant that everything burnt!" Fahrenheit 451, Part 3