INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
NAZISM IN GERMANY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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They were locked away
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Pages were ripped out
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They were burnt
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You were fined for reading them
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Detailed explanation-1: -Fahrenheit 451 is a futuristic dystopian novel about a society that employs firefighters to burn and destroy books in an attempt to censor information and knowledge from citizens in order to create an ignorant and less volatile society.
Detailed explanation-2: -The first recorded state-sponsored book burning was in China in 213 BC, according to Matthew Fishburn, the author of Burning Books. The burnings were ordered by Qin Shi Huang, the Chinese emperor who also started the Great Wall and the Terracotta army.
Detailed explanation-3: -Imagine a future where books aren’t just banned, they’re burned. That’s the dystopian United States described by Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451, which has been made into a new film directed by Ramin Bahrani.