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What is the major theme of this novel?

Why is this theme important to a teenager living in 2007?

The major theme of this novel is very hard to detect. I believe the major theme of this novel to be that the future holds many things, but we absolutely need the history of the past to survive as humans and not like wild savages. This stresses the importance of books of history is the story. As the firemen keep burning away the books chained to the histories, Guy Montag starts questioning the idea of burning away history. This happens, when he meets a 17-year old girl, Clarisse McClellan, and she introduces to him the idea of the beauty of the past. He wants to believe that he is doing nothing wrong, but he realizes that he needs to learn more about what the girl has said, so he goes to Professor Faber in order to ask him questions about the books of the past.

I believe that this theme is very important to the teenagers of 2008, because it shows much depth in what teenagers have been neglecting. These books shows the importance of reading and of preserving history, while we, as teenagers of today, have been ignoring these concepts of life. Normal teenagers of this century would be acting as the firemen in the book act. They would be the ones just feeling as natural as they destroy important prints of everything in the past. We as a whole world these days have just want to look to the future and the best we could afford as we moved on to a new world order. We should really be looking at the past to make not the same stupid mistakes our parents had made before our time.