Andres found a quote from the novel Fahrenheit 451. Here it is:
"Let’s imagine there’s an earthquake tomorrow in the average university town. If only two buildings remained in town at the end of the earthquake, what would they have to be to rebuild everything that had been lost? Number one would be the medical building, because you need to help people survive, to heal injuries and sickness. The other building would be the library. All the other buildings are contained in that one. People could go into the library and get all the books they needed in literature or social economics or politics or engineering and take the books out on the law and sit down and read. Reading is the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization. "
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451--the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns ... New York: Ballantine Books, 1988
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This can be used to support the fact that books will be always needed and won't be replaced by new modern ways of learning. In disaster books will be helpfull in rebuilding the future with the help of the past. No technology will be able to beat the importance of books because what is written down is less likely to be erased than something that exists in the virtual world of technology.
ReplyDeleteEverything is based on books, there are already in the world so many people that rely on books that it is quite impossible to delete them. It does not matter what invention, trend or fashionable equipment is in the market, people will never stop buying books. Technology can offer many benefits for reading and can seem more practical, but at the end they always have problems. People who were raised to read by flipping pages, going back and rereading paragraphs or even keep them in their drawers do not adapt to the new technology easily. Reading is an essential part of our lives that we cannot take away, with it we have power and have a new world to discover.
ReplyDeleteThis is the most obvious quote about necessity for books I have ever seen, period. It goes to show that even though we have all our technology were still gonna need our knowledge, and thats found in books, books people actually took the time to write. Id use it as what it is a and prove its point.
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This quote strongly supports my view on books. I believe that books are very important to our society. They contain our history and keep old civilizations alive. Comparing the library to "our brain" is a good comparison because the library knows everything from our cultures and civilizations around the world. If everything was destroyed and we had only electronic books, vooks and Kindles, our civilization would be lost because there would be no surviving evidence of our various cultures and we would know nothing of our past.
ReplyDeleteI would deffinitely base my synthesis essay on this exerpt because it expresses the importance of books through a disaster. Disasters force people to start from nothing again, earthquakes make civilization build from dust again, but what is needed in order to start all over again? Well according to the quote it is knowledge that is only found in books, knowledge of our past knowledge of ourselves. Giving the library that contains the books with these knowledge a large importance. I would use this document to show how even when you have the chance to do things over again books are still vital in any situation regardless of the time period because of the knowledge they contain. Books are something you can't replace with anything, because there isn't a any substitute
ReplyDeleteThe Ipod replaced the Walkman, the DVD replaced the VCR, there is always something replacing something with todays technology. The thing about books is that no matter how many have tried to make them more "technological" it just will not work. The feeling you get from having a book in your hands will never be the same as having some other random electronic modern thing. Books have kept track of who we are and what we have done, they have recorded every little thing that has happened. With this excerpt you make a very important point on the importance of books in our lives. No mater how f**ked up we may be, books will always help us through.
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I would use this document for my synthesis essay as my starting point, and also as my base (my thesis), since it most closely resembles my opinion about books. Books have the information we need in order to keep developing, to keep inventing new things, and if they were to dissapear, civilization would stop evolving and would have to start to reinvent everything all over again, since no one has ALL the information the millions of books have.
ReplyDeleteI could use this document as a reference to what my main claim would be: that any original, printed, and bounded books should not be replaced by a series of buttons and apps seen in many of today's electronic devices such as iPhones and Kindles that allow people to "efficiently" view a book. Sure, these technologies come very much in handy for a reference or research on a specific book, but a BOOK itself (a collection of facts that took decades of people to recollect) is NEVER replaceable, since all the technologies we create almost every month can disappear in a minute on account of a natural disaster of epic proportions. Should this disaster ever happen, we would literally be left without a human powerhouse of knowledge, and that is THE book itself.
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