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(MIP) This meme is about how the government manipulates the people by advertising materialistic items, keeping society dumbed down, and degrading books and actual knowledge. (SIP-A) The government attempts to keep society free of books and knowledge by changing facts and setting strict laws. (STEWE-1) The government is willing to even change history for its own benefit, saying that books have always been burned and that firemen have always been destroying houses. “Established, 1790, to burn English-influenced books in the Colonies. First Fireman: Benjamin Franklin,” (Bradbury 32). (STEWE-2) The government also sets laws that are against books and knowledge. “‘You know the law,’ said Beatty. ‘Where’s your common sense?’” (Bradbury 35). Here, it shows how people are taught that books are bad. …show more content…

(STEWE-1) If the leaders have a dumbed down, knowledge-free society, they can do whatever they want because nobody is going to protest them. Beatty says to Montag, “Colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Burn it,” (Bradbury 57). (STEWE-2) Peace is what the government wants, without books, there is no knowledge and therefore no conflict, so that people act on their instincts instead of their knowledge. Beatty explains to Montag, “We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal,” The government wants to keep the people free of knowledge. (Bradbury 58). That quote showed that you must pretend that everything is fine to not create any conflict, so that the government has control over them. (CS) The government in Fahrenheit 451 is keeping the society away from

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