Sunday, September 20, 2009
F451
As I started reading the book I was not really intrigued. Then I continued to read(becuase I had too LOL) and it started to peak my interest. How could a world with out random books be real? Then it all started to unfold. A writier can never appeal to all audiences. As the book portrays, many "minorities" can be offended. This is where our freedom comes into play; freedom allows us to pick what we read so we do not have to be offended.
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Martha,
ReplyDeleteYou've touched on a really important element of F51--the relationship between writing and freedom of ideas. What you said about "a writer can never appeal to all audiences" is so true. And yes, everyone can be offended reading something--it doesnt even have to be minorities. But there is also something to truth from enlightenment, which the people in Bradbury's society never even had a chance to try. They were told what they could and could not read. They had no choice--no freedom.
Atleast if we read something we are by nature opposed too, I'd always like to think we can find something in the text to appreciate, even if we don't agree with the whole thing. Even if a text offends me, I still like to finish it so that I may appreciate it in someway and take something from it--even if the journey is difficult.