Fahrenheit 451

what is the major theme of this novel? why is this theme important to a teenager living in 2007?


The major theme of this novel is kind of about antigovernment ruling society. The society in the novel had made some kind of situation that all the literature is against the rule to read and keep it. Governments think that the questions that come up with by reading books are dangerous to them, so the books are no longer can be read because reading can do something to someone else and reading books make people to have questions that leads to revolution. In the novel, the governments do not want to lose control of the society so they says its for trying to make people happy, make people free, and make people to have less stress, but the truth is that governments do not wants people to know what is real by letting people to not to think of anything or worrying about anything. This theme is important to a teenager living in 2007 because these days teenagers do not read many books and the theme of this novel tells us that reading book makes people intelligent and wise. Reading books makes people to think and ask questions and by getting the answer of the question, people build their knowledge. Since our government is not like that in the novel, but almost opposit, our government wants society and them selves to be improved every year, and governments wants people to be intelligent, so teenagers should read many books and have questions and come up with the answer to improve our society.