These are ways people express their ideas about certain books that they feel are inappropriate, offensive, unsuitable for a certain age group, unrealistic, etc. who ban or challenge books. If it's banned, it's technically “banned” from reading it, so they're taken off the shelves of libraries and schools. The challenge is just an attempt to restrict certain materials, but can be banned later (ALA). From 2000 to 2009, 5,099 challenges (ALA) were reported. 5,099 books that people thought were shameful and wanted to remove from library and school shelves so students couldn't read them. What some of these parents or teachers don't know is that they are taking away students' freedom of choice and right to do what they want. Parents censor the books read by students for unnecessary reasons so that the student cannot have information about different materials and believe unrealistic situations. In Fahrenheit 451, parents in our society are the government in theirs. They ban books and make it a crime so that society cannot read them. Instead of abusive language or violence, the government in Fahrenheit 451 bans and burns them because it gives citizens a vision of a different world they don't live in. Montag wants to read the books to gain knowledge about the world and how things happened, but it would be against the law and he would ultimately be punished for it. The government in Fahrenheit