F451

Isn't it ironic that we're reading a book about not being able to read books?
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is such an odd novel to read and comprehend. In fact, I'm still having trouble figuring out what it was all about.
Clarisse McClennan is what we, as teenagers, in this day and age, are all about. She represents us, right now. Her love for life itself made me genuinely happy about the book. Unfortunatly, everyone else, especially Mildred, made me very unhappy about it. The fact that Mildred could care less about Clarisse getting killed made me so angry inside. I hated how the death of Clarisse was never fuly developed because of how Mildred delivered the news. I think I was affected more by the death, than Guy ever was shown being affected.
It's close to impossible to think about America ever becoming the way it is in F451. I think that we, as Americans, love reading and classic literature way too much for it to be destroyed like it was in the novel.
The reasoning for the books being burned makes me mad. People are so 'offended' by things in books that they have to take those out to try not to offend people. GET OVER IT. There's always going to be something out there to offend you. It's life. Things usually offend people because they don't believe in them, and people fear things that they don't understand or believe in. We're already experiencing people being offended by books, TV shows, music, etc. and it drives me crazy to hear things like that. People are always going to be offended. They have been since the begining of time and they will be until the end of time.
Fahrenheit 451 was one of the hardest books for me to read, ever. It was hard to grasp the whole concept of the book. I think that because this book is based so far in the future, it is very hard for us, now, to comprehend and believe in it.