![]() When I first read Fahrenheit 451, I felt a connection with Guy when he realized that books aren't worthless, that they could teach him and help him learn truth. Today people are throwing books away in exchange for electronic versions that just aren't the same. Every day libraries are getting rid of classics while filling shelves with garbage. It makes my heart ache. Books teach us things we otherwise would learn the hard way. With books, we are able to learn things from a safe distance. We are able to think for ourselves just like Augustine knew. Books provide freedom. They give us hope and strength, and they expand and open our minds to new possibilities and different opportunities. President Gordon B. Hinckley said, "From the reading of good books there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way. It is not enough to read newspapers...but to become acquainted with real nobility as it walks the pages of history and science and literature is to strengthen character and develop life in its finer meanings." Having a personal and/or city library with paper books is truly a blessing. Henry Ward Beecher said, "Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows...A little library growing larger every year is an honorable part of a young man's [or woman's] history. It is a man's [or woman's] duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life." I have been surrounded by books my entire life. I consider them some of my best friends, and they have made me who I am today. The fight to keep physical books is worthwhile.
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Emily
1/23/2018 10:30:13 am
I love this so much!!! I totally agree with everything you said!!!!
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