Dawson Ryberg
Mr. Spitler
29 October 2014 Censorship Affects Society Censorship is a wall; blocking society from the imagination and ideas. Censorship is a shady area to what people do not know. In Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” he is about the society of firemen burning books rather than taking out fires; as does Medi Belortaja representing Censorship through a big scary snake and Salman Rushdie gets real proof of censorship through some real writers and cartoonists
Censorship divides society into two groups: the good and not so good. In this case, Captain Beatty resembles the groot. After the woman burning herself to death with her own books, Montag says she said a quote before dying. Captain Beatty says that, “ A man named Latimer …show more content…
In this article, Salman Rushdie gives a metaphor of the imagination that, “somewhere up there you might find a giant set of faucets, and that the air we breathe flows from those faucets, hot air and cold air and tepid air from some celestial mixer-unit”. In this case, air is something we do not appreciate as much as we do like lets say starbucks, the faucet is basically our brain and how our creativity is put there and censors are the people who clog and unclog the faucets. By people limiting what comes out, all the unknown things are kept from us. Not only is imagination, which is very creative in most cases,kept from our society but it keeps us from expressing our imagination. Writers are people they, “want to talk about how much they get paid, and they want to gossip about other writers and how much they get paid, and they want to complain about critics and publishers, and gripe about politicians, and they want to talk about what they love, the writers they love, the stories and even sentences that have meant something to them, and, finally, they want to talk about their own ideas and their own stories, their things” (Rushdie Page 1). As a contestant of censorship, it does not have the way for writers to give their freedom that they are suppose to have. What seems as everyday talk between people, now is “clogged” due to censorship. Salman Rushdie took the research of writers and artists opinions and says that censorship isn’t just a limit, but an