Please be prepared to discuss these questions in class on Friday. It is your responsibility to back up any statement you make with support. Consider your self an attorney presenting your side of a case. As often as possible, please use the novel as a means of support for your opinions. You might consider the conversations between Montag and Beatty and Montag and Faber as a starting point.
1.How would our nation be different if we didn't have free speech? Discuss the significance of free speech amendment in the First Amendment. Is there a relationship between free speech and the freedom to read?
THE FIRST AMENDMENT: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
2. Discuss how censorship is about fear. How does knowledge and reading eliminate fear?
3. Fantasy and science fiction is often censored on the grounds that the symbolism is "anti-Christian" and "anti-establishment." FYI: Fahrenheit 451 has been censored on numerous occasions. Pushing aside the obvious irony in this situation, why do you believe the book was banned?
4. Golda Meir once said, "One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present." Why must we understand history in order to appreciate the present, and change the future? How does this idea play out in Fahrenheit 451?
Please be prepared to discuss these questions in class on Friday. It is your responsibility to back up any statement you make with support. Consider your self an attorney presenting your side of a case. As often as possible, please use the novel as a means of support for your opinions. You might consider the conversations between Montag and Beatty and Montag and Faber as a starting point.
1.How would our nation be different if we didn't have free speech? Discuss the significance of free speech amendment in the First Amendment. Is there a relationship between free speech and the freedom to read?
THE FIRST AMENDMENT: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
2. Discuss how censorship is about fear. How does knowledge and reading eliminate fear?
3. Fantasy and science fiction is often censored on the grounds that the symbolism is "anti-Christian" and "anti-establishment." FYI: Fahrenheit 451 has been censored on numerous occasions. Pushing aside the obvious irony in this situation, why do you believe the book was banned?
4. Golda Meir once said, "One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present." Why must we understand history in order to appreciate the present, and change the future? How does this idea play out in Fahrenheit 451?