Burning Book Burning

“Where they burn books, they will, in the end also burn people.” (Henley, 2) I believe this quote is absolutely true. Books are people's way of expressing themselves and their thoughts. It's a way of getting a message across. So ultimately the people that burn books end up burning the people. Maybe not literally, but you hurt their feelings and sense of confidence they had about putting themselves out there. The people burning books might think they are getting rid of the thing that is causing their problems but is that really true? Burning books isn't going to get rid of the authors who wrote the books. It also won't get rid of the people who read the books before they were burned. Who's to say that the author won't have more ideas and write another book, or the person that read the book wont get inspired and

Why would someone want to burn a book if they weren't trying to scare away the person's threat that came from the book. It just doesn't make sense. So when you are burning a book you aren't just literally burning the book. You are burning the author's ideas and so called threats that came from the book and you are ultimately burning the author. My overall thoughts on book burning is that it's pointless. Yeah sure it might not seem like it in the moment when you are burning it but in the end what are you really showing. I think that if someone threatens you weather in be through a book or someone verbally says it that you should confront that person. Doing something that you think is symbolic to get back at that person's threat isn't going to stop that person from having those thoughts or feelings. In the end the only thing you're really burning is history and possibly the