Read this article about a tweet of a letter Daniel Radosh sent to his son's teacher, who required a permission slip to read Fahrenheit 451 (in 8th grade). What do you think of his letter to the teacher? What is the irony in requiring parental permission to read the book? What does it demonstrate about our society?
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Boaz
10/23/2019 01:06:03 pm
That letter was pretty great. One of the best ways to get a point across is to significantly smother it in sarcasm. The irony is pretty prevalent in this petty example of parental permission. The theme of the book is to thoroughly thwart any thought of theft of our... thought, theoretical though it may be. Asking for and acquiring acceptance for the purpose of protection from such principles is preposterous. Such knowledge is necessary in a needy network of students. This demonstrates the disastrous disarray of defilement based on bad information of the doctrine being displayed. If people were able to just read the book they would understand that the theme of the book is necessary in today’s society because dang it alliteration is hard.
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Trishelle
10/23/2019 01:19:29 pm
I agree with you.
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Megan
10/23/2019 01:25:09 pm
I like the way you thought of that.
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Keely
10/23/2019 01:25:43 pm
He really did go hard with the sarcasm.
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Jonah
10/23/2019 08:38:14 pm
Agreed. Also awesome alliteration. (See what I did there)?
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Sienna
10/23/2019 01:15:08 pm
The letter was good but the permission slip is ironic and strange considering the book is literally about how society wants us to not read certain books and how the higher power is not always good.
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Dakota James
10/23/2019 01:22:07 pm
Yeah that sounds about right.
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Olivia
10/23/2019 01:17:44 pm
I found the letter entertaining, seeing as how the letter was really ironic to the book’s contents. It’s ironic because books are required to be burned (banned) in the book’s setting. The permission slip implies that the book shouldn’t be read, or isn’t suitable for all audiences. It implies that our society is trying to limit our access of what the world is or what it can be. It also keeps us naive about the real world and gives us a close-minded aspect, because only certain opinions are vocalized strongly.
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Kendra
10/23/2019 01:20:50 pm
That makes sense.
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Carson
10/23/2019 01:17:57 pm
I think it’s pretty funny that there was a permission slip. I don’t think the book is dangerous. There should not have been a permission slip.
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Olivia
10/23/2019 01:19:17 pm
Differing opinions can be dangerous.
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Dakota James
10/23/2019 01:20:40 pm
Short and sweet.
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Janessa
10/23/2019 01:28:11 pm
I disagree. A permission slip helps the parents know what their children are reading. If there wasn’t one, and some parents thought it was a destructive book, there could have been lots of legal complications.
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Dakota James
10/23/2019 01:18:35 pm
I think this letter to the teacher is saying how ridiculous it is that this book is considered so “dangerous”. It’s ironic that the child is asking permission to read this book, where as most child have to be told to read a book. This shows just how easily our society is offended and can’t handle either a little criticism or change, not everything is perfect.
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Kendra
10/23/2019 01:19:52 pm
I agree.
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Eliza
10/23/2019 01:19:58 pm
Yeah that’s a good way to look at it.
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Trishelle
10/23/2019 01:20:20 pm
Wow. Your so right.
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Olivia
10/23/2019 01:20:32 pm
I agree that our society is becoming more easily offended and close-minded.
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Carson
10/23/2019 01:22:56 pm
Very true.
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Ele
10/23/2019 01:25:48 pm
I agree!
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Eliza
10/23/2019 01:19:07 pm
I think that depending on the age that’s was reading Fahrenheit 451 that there should be a permission slip that parents should sign. I think that it is ironic though.
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Trishelle
10/23/2019 01:19:12 pm
I think that for certain books we should have a permission slip or that everyone in class has to agree on a certain book that we have to read.
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Kendra
10/23/2019 01:19:22 pm
I really liked the letter, I thought it was so funny that he put his opinion without offending. The irony is that they are not allowed to read books in the book and they had to get permission to read the actual book. I feel like even though the book got published we keep trying to find fault in the books and in a lot of things.
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Eliza
10/23/2019 01:20:25 pm
Yeah I agree.
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Ele
10/23/2019 01:25:15 pm
Yes!
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Why would a school send home a permission slip written by the kid? Teachers can type. Anyways, after looking at that article I found another one that goes as follows: Ray Bradbury explained a fact that shocked millions of fans: Fahrenheit 451 was not a warning about government control and book censorship. The world got that wrong. His warning was, we are doing it to ourselves — enslaved to glowing screens. They only started burning books after nobody read them. Bradbury predicted over 50 years in advance, the flat screens covering our walls. But anyway, it was a well written, ironic, sarcastic letter from the parent. The teacher probably wasn't the one with the idea sending out the slip anyways. There was probably a list of books from the school district saying that they needed permission. This one being on the list. Therefore, the teacher just didn't want to get in trouble.
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Myah
10/23/2019 01:26:39 pm
People who do things that they don’t want to do, so they don’t get in trouble make me kinda mad. If you believe in something, fight for it , and let it be known.
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Keely
10/23/2019 01:26:54 pm
Your sarcasm is as strong as the letter.
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Janessa
10/23/2019 01:32:16 pm
I really like this insight. It’s kind of scary to think this could happen and it would all be OUR fault. So it’s really not a dystopian society, because the government didn’t change everything.
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Micah
10/24/2019 10:16:53 am
Did Jonah really write this? Wow. I’m impressed.
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Myah
10/23/2019 01:23:07 pm
This letter is very sarcastic and I enjoy it very much. He proves a very significant point to the teacher and to the permission slip itself. Our society might want to censor or change certain things, but with people like this it might never work.
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Cade
10/23/2019 01:26:15 pm
I agree that that censorship will never work if people like him are around.
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Tyler
10/24/2019 10:11:07 am
I thought like that to
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Tyler
10/24/2019 10:11:33 am
Too
Megan
10/23/2019 01:23:13 pm
I don’t necessarily think the permission slip was needed. The book isn’t dangerous at all. The letter seemed sarcastic so I’m glad he has good humor about it.
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Lizzie
10/23/2019 01:24:58 pm
I completely understand.
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Ady
10/23/2019 01:23:20 pm
I think it’s ironic that the teacher made them get a note saying it’s okay since it is kinda portraying the same theme of the book trying not to offend anyone.
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Keely
10/23/2019 01:23:25 pm
There is no better way to wedge irony into that letter. That sarcasm was amazing! I think the parent “quietly” asserted the teacher letting him know he thought there should’ve been a permission slip. The book so far is all about getting around the rules and thinking outside the box, so the fact that there would have to be permission granted to read it, is ironic. This kind of relates to our society because we’re always trying to find short cuts and ways to get out of things.
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Lizzie
10/23/2019 01:25:25 pm
This is a very great point.
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Boaz
10/23/2019 02:16:57 pm
That is an interesting way of thinking about it. I didn’t consider that
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Jonah
10/23/2019 08:43:46 pm
Thanks for sharing. I thought some similar thoughts.
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Madeline
10/23/2019 01:23:38 pm
I think that the letter to the teacher shows the irony of the permission slip. The irony of requiring parental permission to read the book is that in Fahrenheit 451 there are close to no more books left and having a book results in punishment and now with the permission slip it makes it ironic that if the permission slip wasn’t signed and they weren’t aloud to read it but they read it anyways they could possibly be punished. I think it demonstrates that our society is leaning closer to the point of Fahrenheit 451.
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Cade
10/23/2019 01:27:46 pm
I agree that we are getting closer to the society in the book.
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Boaz
10/23/2019 01:29:13 pm
We are definitely inching our way towards censorship of thought in general
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Lizzie
10/23/2019 01:24:25 pm
I found the letter very interesting and that it was really sarcastic. I think that it is ironic that Fahrenheit 451 has the sam theme. Also it demonstrates that we are still censoring what people read.
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Megan
10/23/2019 01:25:32 pm
I agree
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Ele
10/23/2019 01:24:33 pm
I liked the letter a lot, it was really funny too. The ironic this is that you are not allowed to read books in the book. The father is really sarcastic in this letter, which is funny but true.
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Beth
10/23/2019 01:28:17 pm
I think so too.
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Cade
10/23/2019 01:25:03 pm
I greatly enjoyed the letter very much because of how much sarcasm it contains. It’s ironic because all books have to be burned including great literature and religious books such as the Bible. It implies that we as humans have been kept from the outside world.
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Jaylee
10/23/2019 01:25:20 pm
There is a whole lot of sarcasm within the letter. The irony is that in the book, books are considered dangerous and the permission slip is acting like the book is dangerous.
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Janessa Black
10/23/2019 01:25:54 pm
I really liked how the letter was written sarcastically. I think it would’ve been even more funny if it went over the teacher’s head. I want to know if they knew what they were doing when they required a permission slip. Society is trying to censor more things that are seen as bad and to protect us.
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Myah
10/23/2019 01:28:56 pm
Society trying to censor us I feel doesn’t work well. Naturally we want to retaliate and we do making their efforts have a counter effect.
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Micah
10/24/2019 10:14:10 am
That’s a good word. Censor
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Hailey
10/24/2019 01:15:20 pm
I like the sarcasm of the letter as well.
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Nathan
10/24/2019 01:20:13 pm
Sometimes sarcasm is very effective to get a point across
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Beth
10/23/2019 01:26:44 pm
I think this is a great, friendly way to help the teacher start thinking about the irony. It is ironic that they need permission to read a book about not reading books. It is demonstrating that our society is coming closer to this dystopian one.
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Tyler
10/24/2019 10:12:23 am
Yah the irony is kind of funny
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Hailey
10/24/2019 01:14:57 pm
I agree that we’re getting closer to a dystopian society
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Tyler
10/24/2019 10:10:04 am
I think that this letter was a funny way of the parent getting his point across. I pike the way that this parent used sarcasm to prove a point, sometimes that is the best way to get you paint across. The irony in this is that they are asking for a permission slip to approve that the student can read a book about books getting banned. I think the irony in this is kind of funny especially sense the teacher didn’t realize it. I think this demonstrates that our society is doing everything we can to get around or through the boundaries that are set for us because we don’t think that we need those boundaries even though they are there to protect us from the dangers of the other side.
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Nathan
10/24/2019 01:19:00 pm
I agree with what you said.
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Micah Tolman
10/24/2019 10:13:38 am
I like this letter because he is standing up for his point of view at the same time he is teaching the dude a lesson. The irony is that it’s a book about society being too wary regarding literature and yet they're giving out permission slips for the students to read the book. It demonstrates that our society lacks confidence and relies a lot on permission to avoid offending someone.
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Hailey
10/24/2019 01:14:27 pm
This letter is honest and bold, and the writers point is very clearly stated. The irony of the letter, is that the child had to get a permission slip signed in order to read a book about books being illegal. Today’s society is too easily offended, and that trait could easily become a society without books or opinions.
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Nathan
10/24/2019 01:17:44 pm
It is very ironic that in our society we have to ask permission to read a book about censorship. It raises some questions about our society and how similar it is to the book. I think people should not have to ask permission to read a book.
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