PLEASE HELP I DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO COMPLETE THIS IS THE FINAL I HAVE BEEN CAUGHT UP IN ALL OTHER FINALS 100 POINTS 100 POINTS It is interesting to note how the two books we read (and are reading) although quite different in where and when they take place, have a theme in common – the power of the words, literacy, and ideas found in books. In Fahrenheit 451, books are burned and readers of books are criminals, and in Kindred, the first instance when Dana, the contemporary black woman sent back to the time of slavery, gets in trouble on the plantation, occurs when she is taught teaching one of the black children how to read.

In the first part of the essay, discuss how Fahrenheit 451 makes this argument. Make sure to discuss:

-how in this dystopian world a
fascist govt burns books and locks
up people who read

-how if people do not read then govt
propaganda controls how people think
and what people know

In the second part of the essay, discuss the same theme in Kindred. Make sure to include

-how the slaves are not allowed
to read and write, leave the plantation,
or learn about the world

-why the modern woman Dana is
seen as dangerous and threatening

-what the slave master is afraid of –

In the conclusion, discuss how / if reading these two books and thinking about these ideas for the past months have made you rethink and reconsider your own relationship to books and reading.

Sample Introductory paragraph
Although one book takes place in the future and one book takes place 200 years in the past, both Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and Octavia Butler’s Kindred argue how books and ideas have great power and why that power threatens govts and leaders scared of people thinking for themselves.