Government Control: The Role Of Government In The United States

Imagine hundreds of thousands of people all in the same drab clothes and same drab haircuts. Imagine being reprimanded for using the wrong word or doing the wrong actions. Imagine having your life threatened because of your age or of act of wrongdoing. This would all happen if government control got out of hand. Government in the United States has rules to protect the citizens but we have a lot of freedom as well. The government came up with the bill of rights to protect the citizens freedom but to protect the citizens as well. Government control is a negative aspect based on not letting their citizens have free will, decrease in population and propaganda.
When government control tries to take away free will, citizens will react poorly. …show more content…
The government would give the citizens the outfit to wear for the whole year. The government would give them their outfits at each….. Also the government would choose the jobs for the citizens. The government would watch them and choose a job that suits them. This happened when the citizens turned..The job choosing happened at … This is bad because the government is not letting them make their own decisions. Citizens change their minds a lot to say activities the citizen likes but the citizens can’t change their minds because as soon as the government decides it is set in stone. This matters because the citizens won't know how to make real life decisions on their own. This proves that the government is not letting their citizens choose so they won't make the wrong decision which is good but how will the citizens learn from their mistakes.In Fahrenheit 451, the government would give tv people scripts and a citizen a script to read who the government called them their “family”. This happens every year and they have their tv who shows the people. Also the government takes away the books so people won’t learn about the past and see how corrupt their government is. So the people keep following the …show more content…
In the Giver the government would give older citizens a release day which to the citizens is where the governments releases them to another colony but the government really kills the citizen. This happens when citizens start to get old. It happens in the elder’s home. Also the government will kill someone if the committed a lot of felonies and the government thinks it is a good idea to release the citizen. This shows that the government is bad because they kill people just because the population is getting too big or the resources are declining. Also if someone has done a bad act a few times they just die. This matters because the government should not take lives just because we are low on resources or the population is increasing or someone did a bad thing. This proves how far a government will go to make the community perfect.In Fahrenheit 451 the government would kill people if they had broken a low. Sometimes a dog would come after him and poison them, This happened when someone was bad or suspected of doing something bad. This happened usually where the dog found you or in your house. This is bad because someone could have one done bad thing but it did a world of good and still got killed for that act. It is unfair punishment because even if you didn't kill someone, you could get killed for your doings. This matters because one shouldn’t die for an act that one did. This