Are books really important in our life?

Question

My class read/watched this book about people burning books.. what if this happened in our society.. do u think that we need books or not?

Answer 1

I assume that the book you mentioned is Fahrenheit 451. If you recall from the story, it started with banning books...and eventually ended in their demise. Try reading the book in more depth, and it should answer your question for you. I assume you're not a big reader?

Answer 2

Beyond the fact that reading is an enriching activity and an important tool in eduacation, burning books is disturbing because it is a symbol of tyranny and mind control. When books are burned its the most horrible form of censorship, let alone the frightening reminder of Hitler's burning books that didn't correspond with his world view. Even if we don't agree with an idea, it doesn't give us the right to destroy it.

Answer 3

I have learnt far more from reading books than I ever learnt in school. I consider the last 20 years of my life to have been my real education when I have been free to read and learn whatever I wanted. And the first 20 years of my life to be the slave period when I was forced to learn what they wanted me to know - most of which I have chosen to forget.

If our society ever gets to the point of being as described in Fahrenheit 451, then I plan on hiding my books and making damn sure than noone ever burns them. If I have to go into hiding myself - just like Anne Frank - then so be it.

Books are far more important than ideology or any religion.

Answer 4

Yes, they definitely are really important in our lives, that is, to the advancements of mankind since the inception of languages worldwide thousands of years ago like Chinese, Greek, Latin, English, etc. The world without books imply we merely use spoken languages, in other words, the books represent innumerable written/printed words for immediate or later generations to read and learn to achieve academic/literary advancements. Thus, it's a pity for those people burning books, they are maddened/angered by ignorance or rebel without rationality and they'd suffer later from such rash actions. Where can they find wisdom if they burn books?

Some 2,000 years ago, Marcus Tullius Cicero (106BC-43BC) said, "A room without books is like a body without a soul." Just think about that, and what will happen if you live in a country without books to read, to study, to verify, to further your studies?

Please visit the web site below for more quotes on the importance of books.

Today (The New Year's Eve), I bought "12 Books that Changed the World" to find out why such books were great, please find one to read. Happy New Year 2007.

Answer 5

people do silly things like this still. they always will. take the harry potter books, an innocent childrens seriers that's very popular. well, some christians think it's the devils work, because it talks about witches and magic and whatnot. they think we should get rid of these books.
Books are very important in my life. I read everyday. They not only provide entertainment on many different levels, but they are educational as well. good question.

Answer 6

farnite 451 (not spelled correctly) a good book/film to make you think
what if there were no books/reading
the world would be very different
THINK ON IT
that is the point of it being a class project(30 years i had to watch the same film)

Answer 7

Yes, I definitely think we need books. I am a real book reader. I love to read all sorts of books. Of course, there are some books that should be banned from publication like porn books and magazines.
Reading takes you into another world and into another's created life. I write stories myself but I haven't tried to publish anything. I write them for my children.

Answer 8

I can't begin to describe who important books are in our lives. When I think of people burning books, it infuriates me. I don't need some puritan telling me what I can and can't read.

Answer 9

Without books, my life would have been infinitely much poorer. They have opened so many worlds to me, so many human experiences, so many thoughts and feelings and adventures, so much beauty, so much sadness, so much knowledge, so much history and so much future - and so much fun! To live without books would be, for me, to live without memories and without dreams, stranded on the present moment like a shipwrecked on a small desert island. What poverty! Books have expanded my universe far beyond everything that I could have achieved by myself. A society that burns books shrinks the universe. And our brains. And our hearts. So, stepping down from my soap box, yeah, we need books.

Answer 10

We most assuredly need them. An interesting way of looking at it would be through the eyes of Cherokee people in the early 1800s. We used the syllabic system created by one man, Sequoyah (who labored for twelve years to create one of the most complete syllabic systems on Earth) to create Cherokee-language texts of all kinds. We were, and are, described as "a reading and intellectual people," and books hold a VERY special significance to us. Whereas they're objects to most people, they hold the world to a Cherokee aware of his or her history. Books and writing, and our level of education, set us apart.

So of course, I believe books are a necessity. Those who would burn them, however, ought to be lit on fire themselves.