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Fahrenheit 451 Banned during Banned Books Week
Posted by wizeGurl
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 Really, there's no better way to celebrate Banned Books Week than by banning a book about banning and burning books. Say that three times fast.
Yes, a caring parent in Texas (how surprising) found out from his darling little girl that her class's reading assignment, Ray Bradbury classic Fahrenheit 451, actually contained "bad language" and "smoking," plus a whole host of other bad influences on young people who've been raised in hermetically sealed Skinner boxes and have therefore never been exposed to such things before.
Well, naturally he was upset that these things were in a book assigned to second-graders. Oh, wait, you say the offended girl was a high school sophomore, just like I was when we read the same book in a city of 75,000 in the free-thinking state of Louisiana decades ago? |
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Naturally, the parent in question hasn't actually READ the book in question--he just skimmed through it, looking for objectionable, unspeakable depravity, like use of the words "hell" and "damn." Thank goodness his daughter will never be exposed to such words, unless she goes to church.
To be fair, this concerned parent doesn't want to burn the book, as all books are sought out and burned in the plot of this evil book itself. He just wants it to be removed from the school's curriculum, so that other children won't learn the book's twisted message of allowing people to access the books they want to. In the book, a few wicked people even squirrel away a few dastardly books, and to keep the world's words alive, commit whole books to memory, like that bawdy Shakespeare, and the ribald Holy Bible, with its violence and sex and multiple wives and incest (hello, Lot!) and wanton eating of shellfish.
The parent and child claim that it's just a coincidence that their request to remove the offending book from the curriculum, where it's been taught for at least the past 19 years (and probably even longer), came during the 25th annual Banned Books Week, a week that "celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them." |
Do you DARE to click here and exercise your right to read something that could possibly offend you? Do you? |
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Ouch
Posted by ffffffff on 2006-10-18 23:41:46 | | That was so pathetic, my brain hurts. Why did we bother to keep Texas anyway? |
I read this book, just recently
Posted by Madz on 2008-11-03 15:51:57 | | This book is wonderfull, I am in 6th grade and even I know that. As if this girl has never heard the "bad words" I mean she's like what 15- seriously. lk little kids know what all the "cuss words" are. Seriously how is she ever going to make it through collage without hearing them? Gosh. |
Oh, the irony!
Posted by 123456789 on 2008-11-14 15:49:25 | People don't read the books they ban...
We got the freedom of speech! |
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Thats stupid!
Posted by poofer fish on 2008-12-15 20:10:50 | | People should read the books before they decide to ban them. And after they read them they should think first about what knowledge they are depriving everyone of. |
| Posted by Anonymous on 2008-12-30 16:11:46 | | i know right:(( |
| Posted by Anonymous on 2008-12-30 16:13:42 | | thats funny:) but i think i lost some brain cells reading it |
STUPID
Posted by STUPID on 2009-01-07 19:03:00 | | that's just stupid!! they shouldn't be such retards!! THat book is good. And the girl should grow up and stop telling her daddy that, "there's a bad word in my book." TC over and out. |
| Posted by Anonymous on 2009-01-10 09:34:13 | | I did not like this book, it had a lot of violence in it... But it is stupid for a young sophmore to say that the book should be banned because of profanity. I remember, I knew all the cuss words from A-Z in order when I reached her age. |
Not worse than the bible
Posted by Anonymous on 2009-01-22 16:42:58 | | Well if this book should be banned for mentioning hell and damn once or twice than they should be wishing the bible was never printed for mentioning those words and far more evil [deeds] than the book they want to ban now. Irony much? |
Oy
Posted by Texas liberal on 2009-01-27 00:47:11 | | There's a reason why I say, "I'm not a Texan, I just live here." These people are part of it. |
How stupid
Posted by Fatal1ty on 2009-02-15 13:24:23 | | I hate people like that, who live in a box and are never exposed to the world, then make the rest of us suffer. Parents need to stop sheltering their kids to point of a high-school kid thinking "hell" and "damn" are bad words and shouldn't be in a book. GROW UP AMERICA!! |
| Posted by Stupid on 2009-04-29 20:16:22 | | That fatt girl needs to grow up seriously... Hell and damn you gotta be kidding me |
The Point
Posted by Sigh on 2009-05-24 14:32:28 | Of course the book had violence in it- it depicts a dystopian society and is meant to warn us about what society has become. Books aren't just for entertainment, they are for ideas.
This is what is wrong with people, they want to be entertained all the time, so they don't even know what literature is for. |
WHY WOULD THEY EVEN DARE TO?
Posted by SomethingWickedThisWayComes on 2009-09-24 15:39:54 | | I agree with Madz, poofer fish, and Anonymous who wrote the post(Not worse than the Bible) because these words are a part of life and if people don't grow up and realize, there are a lot of cuss words in lots of other books and not just Fahrenheit 451, they'll never make it in the real world where you hear cussing almost everyday in the media, internet, schools and more places than that. For people who think they can ban something because it has a few cuss words, grow up and quit worrying about banning a book for a stupid reason like this. |
| Posted by asdgrbstebh on 2009-12-03 11:22:46 | | the purpose of the book is to criticise people like that who want to ban books nad just be dicks |
Bible
Posted by Concerned Society on 2010-01-08 09:53:59 | | But if you were to read into the Bible you would find that sexual immorality and poligamy is a sin. And the wages of sin is death. |
Black Booty
Posted by sick on 2010-02-17 19:40:52 | | it is really ironic that they would ban this book! |
OH MY JESUSSS
Posted by Anonymous on 2010-03-09 13:57:35 | | thats stupid :3 |
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Posted by su on 2010-08-23 20:20:30 | | gurfleshmurf |
wow.....
Posted by 999999999 on 2011-01-24 22:38:47 | | i think shes so stupid! i read the book and liked it. shes just... pifjfhdklvioerfrfwiirthmwuifvmilfgvecrvuyt4r |
Thank you for your sarcasm!
Posted by Jenna on 2011-09-27 07:29:51 | | I have to say I enjoyed every sarcastic thought that you wrote. I agree whole heartedly! Thanks! |
oh my god.
Posted by me. on 2011-10-18 21:09:03 | | i lost some brain cells just reading this. i thoroughly enjoyed this book when i read it, and i was in no way offended by anything in it. are you kidding me? yes, they burned the bible. but they also burned every other book in existence. yes, it used "offensive language". so did SO many other books that WERENT banned. get over it. |
material
Posted by k brown on 2012-06-15 10:40:29 | What amazes me is that this book was written in the 1950s and was actually published with profane language. I thought that was a decade of conscientiousness. To me, the material was not offensive - no worse than the hunger games - and it can be a futuristic reality. However, I especially hate the misuse of God's name and profane language. Take out the offensive words and the meaning of the book is not changed one bit. Sometimes, you have to pick your battles - isn't the idea to get the point across more important than keeping in the profane language? The profanities truly serve no purpose.
I have a problem with it being a required book in public schools. If a child uses that exact same language in the classroom, they would be punished with ISS or some other form of reprimanding. So why put that language in their heads in the classroom if they don't want it coming of out of their mouths? Honestly, that's ludicrous. They could purchase the censored copies and still get the point across. These are still young, impressionable minds. |
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