“”You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me the most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” (-James Baldwin) The story Fahrenheit 451, by Rad Bradbury, is a symbolic story that reveals censorship of people and their knowledge. Knowing that books provide emotions, imagination, and make people crave independence, Bradbury had banned the idea of books by creating a democracy that concluded that books hurt people and went against them. This book used characters and figurative language that symbolized the theme, which is censorship of not only people, but the question of ‘why’ as well.
“I don’t talk things, sir,” said Faber. ”I talk the meanings of things. I sit here and know I’m alive.” (Pg. 71, Bradbury) …show more content…
Faber symbolizes the authors and the older community of people that hid and silenced themselves because they were afraid of creating chaos. In isolation is where they all stay, keeping themselves safe and away from those who would spread the news of their secret knowledge. Faber is the one who symbolizes the people who had to zip their mouths closed before trouble had been exposed to them, and when he later expresses how he’s become so much of a coward that he was forced into creating a seashell radio of the modern day. He is ashamed of the amount of fear is felt, to the point where he knows and is just letting fear guide him along the shadows of the monotone, modern day that was portrayed in the book as a more technological