Knowledge In Fahrenheit 451

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(AGG) In a society where people are glued to electronics, it's a challenge to be aware of the truth behind the government. (BS-1) In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the government gains multiple things from manipulating the members of society. (BS-2) Whoever is aware of this controlling gains knowledge, memory and a death risk. (BS-3) The unaware humans in that society lack understanding, memory and have no emotions. (TS) These all prove how the futuristic government affects the knowledge and memory within members of society, warning if we continue down this path, we will become mindless robots just like the ones within the novel.

(MIP-1)The government gains multiple things from the unthinkable minds of people in society,
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(SIP-A) The truth behind the society is unseen by many people, which makes them lose grasp of knowledge and memory. (STEWE-1) In relationships, people don't even remember their past. They ask “The first time we ever met, where was it and when?”(Bradbury 40). This proves the people in society who don't notice what the government is hiding, have problems with memory and knowledge. Nobody sees the hidden truth behind the government. Along with forgetting the past, these robots have a hard time understanding. (STEWE-2) They admit “Half the time I couldn't hear a word he said. And the words I did hear I didn't understand!" (Bradbury 93). As they listen to the conversation, they don't comprehend. (SIP-B) By living their lives under the government, the people are unhappy and take their emotions out of destruction, or simply commit suicide. (STEWE-1) No one in this society would ever know “...any dead man killed in a war. Killed jumping off buildings, yes...” (Bradbury 91). Committing suicide is a long term solution for a short term problem, yet when people feel any kind of emotion or have any kind of problem, they distinguish it. They won't even bother thinking of the aftermath or contemplating whether suicide is the best option because they don't even bother thinking. (STEWE) They also take emotion out on animals, "If you see that dog outside’ ‘give him a kick for me”(73). (CS) Pushing the reader to see how empty the people are from not understanding the government's

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