You must then reconcile whatever argument you construct with the responsibilities that accompany accepting the rights of the First Amendment. Why is reading bad for a student? How can it be bad? Next, you must establish how a student who reads Fahrenheit 451 will read the book and extract from it a message that says "Defy Authority Whenever Possible" and then act on this message. That is, you must establish how a reading of Fahrenheit 451 would inspire a student to flagrantly disregard authority. What are its consequences? What are the probable effects on youth to see flagrant disregard of authority? (In regard to these questions, you may want to read Plato's Apology to get a sense of how to argue the position.) Second, you must have some theory of psychology, either implied or directly stated. First, you must establish why defying authority is wrong. To do so, you must do a number of things. For the sake of the argument, assume for a moment that you wish to "ban" Fahrenheit 451 from the library shelves. Imagine that a group wants to ban Fahrenheit 451 because Montag defies authority. Yet, partly because of censorship or the fear of censorship, many writers are ignored or inadequately represented in the public schools, and many are represented in anthologies not by their best work but by their safest or least offensive work." What are the issues involved in censorship? Writers may often be the spokesmen of their culture, or they may stand to the side, attempting to describe and evaluate that culture. To accept a commitment to the First Amendment means, in the words of Justice Holmes, "freedom for what we hate." As quoted in Students' Right to Read (NCTE, 1982), "Censorship leaves students with an inadequate and distorted picture of the ideals, values, and problems of their culture. The common reading of the First Amendment is that commitment to free speech is not the acceptance of only non-controversial expressions that enjoy general approval. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution reads:Ĭongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for redress of grievances. Bradbury ties personal freedom to the right of an individual having the freedom of expression when he utilizes the issue of censorship in Fahrenheit 451.
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