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Fahrenheit 451: Books - A Part of Our Past


One of the biggest issues raised in this book was the idea that people
are starting to forget more about books and what they mean. People have
started to take books for granted, instead of reading books they watch a movie
or a program on the television. People do not realize that books, scrolls,
manuscripts are a big part of our past.

Since the beginning of time, people have been recording things they saw,
did and took part in on birch bark and later very primitive paper. People do
not realize that without those scratching on the birch bark that we would have
no recollection of the past. Sure there would have been word of mouth, but
things would have gotten so turned around that it would not have been our past
anymore, it would have been a made up one. In the time of Shakespeare there
were no televisions, not even close to that technology yet. Who would we study
and learn about, if no one had written things. Man kind would be......

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