The article, Reading Habits of Undergraduates and their Academic Performances: Issues and Perspectives, by Akabuike, Grace, and Asika Emmanuel, suggests that reading as a practice and an art has tended to diminish. The article found on African Journal Online. Author discuses several reasons why students have a poor reading ability, as well as the consequences of a lack of reading.

What factors cause the poor reading skills.
In order have a comprehensive understanding of the consequences of lack of reading, we have to find out the reasons that cause that.

who is reading should be thinking, predicting, questioning, evaluating, defining and redefining what is being read.

However, most of students are not willing to this, they read only to pass examination. Obviously, students will not improve their reading skills by do so. Eventually lead to a bad consequence.

The Consequences

Very obvious, there are many bad consequences of a lack of reading. In the article, authors argues that lacking of reading will impair students’ ability to read, which could let students read slowly, laboriously and inefficiently. Lack of reading also can affect empathy, social perception, and emotional intelligence problems.

In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury depicts a future where ignorant and emotionless masses are bombarded with meaningless media and filled with empty happiness. In this oppressive world, Montag is a fireman whose job is to destroy all books, however, he soon begins to question the society he lives in and turns into an intellectual revolutionary.