Fahrenheit 451

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   luannw Teacher
   High School - 11th Grade

   Faber says, "Books show the pores in the face of life."  He means that books allow a person to think and to form his own opinions and ideas based on reality, even if the reality isn't nice or pretty.  Books allowed many angles to be viewed in order for a person to have well-rounded information.  Faber goes on to say that the knowledge that is in books is out there in the world and can be gained through vast experience, but most people don't have the means or opportunity to get all the experience needed, so that's where books came in.  Books, he says, is where the "average chap" will see this information.  The definition is accurate for the society of the story.  There the people only know what is told to them in a very watered-down way  Beatty tells Montag earlier in the story that because people were offended by some of the books, they were cleansed of anything deemed offensive to the point where they no longer had any meaning or value because they were so bland.  That caused people to stop reading and to stop thinking.

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