Self-Selected Response "SSR"

Quote:“More Pictures. The mind drinks less and less. Impatience. Highways full of crowds going somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, nowhere.” 

Group Question:“Does putting pictures in books stop people from thinking?”

I don’t think that by putting pictures in books it stops people from thinking; it actually should keep them from thinking more, and exploring more on what they are seeing in their minds. By putting pictures in books it allows the reader to have a clear image instead of reading to get the image on what the author is talking about. When seeing the image already in front of you; you can conclude what’s happening in the picture, make assumptions, and think about what is going to happened next throughout the story. 

When reading to actually get an image you might conclude wrong and just misinterpret the entire story. Yes, it does add a mystery but when you already have the image right in front of you, and see what the author is trying to describe to you makes it way easier to understand what’s going on, and you can draw more accurate conclusions. In the book “FAHRENHEIT 451” by: Ray Bradbury it explains, “More Pictures. The mind drinks less and less. Impatience. Highways full of crowds going somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, nowhere.”  This quote states in my opinion, if there’s more pictures you don’t really need to have a mystery and think/guess more on what the author is trying to tell you. Instead the mind is drinking less, but is still making conclusions based on the picture the author has already provided for the reader. 

Which proves that just because the author has pictures for the reader it doesn't mean it “stops people completely from thinking.” A lot of this books is a mystery; meaning that you have to read a lot to just develop a clear image on what the author is saying which makes it confusing for me, when I could just have a detailed image with a few words and have a better understanding on what the author is explaining.