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By Cadence Rulo Staff Reporter “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury is categorized as a dystopian novel where books are outlawed and burned. I always felt this book was frightening fiction with the control the authoritative figures had, taking away every book, gaining more power, stripping their people from the beauty a book can bring. However, with the Missouri Law on book bans, “Fahrenheit 451” is becoming less of a fiction and now a reality. On Aug. 28, the Missouri Senate enacted a revision to SB 775 stating schools cannot provide, assign, supply, or distribute books and/or materials that contain explicit sexual information to a student. If a person were to provide such material in school, they would spend a year in jail with a Class A misdemeanor or pay a $2,000 fine. Work that provides artistic or anthropological significance as well as materials in a science or health
