Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is a story set in the future. Many things are different, but one of the biggest changes from today is that books are banned. In the story, there is no particular reason why books are banned, but in the story, Ray Bradbury does a good job of hinting why they might be.

The first reason on why books might be banned is because the government doesn’t want citizens to read books and become more educated on how a government is supposed to work, and will see the flaws in their own, and all the citizens might protest or even start a riot. of course the government doesn’t want this to happen, so they restrict access to knowledge, and one of the biggest ways to obtain knowledge is by read. Additionally, people might not like to feel not as smart because they have read less, so the citizens might have voted to ban books. It is important for a government to have power, or else no one would listen to the laws. So the government must restrict people from finding out how a government should be run so they maintain power, because if citizens today knew the government was taking advantage of them, they would surely not take them seriously.   

The second reason books might be banned is because people might not have the attention span because of all of the TVs and the earbuds that play different sounds. Because people only do these things, aside from working. For example Montag's wife only watches tv and rarely goes outside or talks to Montag. Because nobody has the patience to read books, they were just banned to stop the competition between the books and the electronics.

Because the government doesn't want to give the citizens knowledge to overthrow them or because of the competition between the books and the electronics are valid reasons for the books to be banned.