“You must understand that our civilization is so vast that we can’t have our minorities upset and stirred. Ask yourself, what do we want in this country, above all? People want to be happy, isn’t that right? Haven’t you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren’t they? Don’t we keep them moving, don’t we give them fun? That’s all we live for isn’t it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these” (Bradbury 59). “Colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Burn it. Someone’s written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book” (Bradbury 59).
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To people like Beatty, erasing the problem was the quickest and easiest solution, so he tried to convince Montag of this, too. All of the questions Beatty ask are constructed with rhetorical devices to force the reader to agree with his judgement. Montag might have sided with Beatty because of this if it hadn’t been for Clarisse planting a seed of doubt in his mind. Contradicting to Beatty’s intention, Ray Bradbury warns us that we have to think of more than just our happiness during discord, or we won’t be able to grow as a society. did you already say that elsewhere though? Past racial conflicts include supremacy organizations, like the terrorist group Ku Klux Klan, and their conflict against the black people including the Black Panther Party. The K.K.K’s quest for their idea of “happiness” led to many deaths and other immoral acts against minorities. The Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 can be connected to Bradbury’s lesson because the protests and massacres involved were censored by the Chinese government for the same reason: political disturbance in the country. The media that portrayed the student protesters in a favorable light had to shut down their businesses because of government pressure. Mentioning the protest and disagreements had huge consequences, therefore the Chinese public had no
Beatty is trying …show more content…
To people like Beatty, erasing the problem was the quickest and easiest solution, so he tried to convince Montag of this, too. All of the questions Beatty ask are constructed with rhetorical devices to force the reader to agree with his judgement. Montag might have sided with Beatty because of this if it hadn’t been for Clarisse planting a seed of doubt in his mind. Contradicting to Beatty’s intention, Ray Bradbury warns us that we have to think of more than just our happiness during discord, or we won’t be able to grow as a society. did you already say that elsewhere though? Past racial conflicts include supremacy organizations, like the terrorist group Ku Klux Klan, and their conflict against the black people including the Black Panther Party. The K.K.K’s quest for their idea of “happiness” led to many deaths and other immoral acts against minorities. The Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 can be connected to Bradbury’s lesson because the protests and massacres involved were censored by the Chinese government for the same reason: political disturbance in the country. The media that portrayed the student protesters in a favorable light had to shut down their businesses because of government pressure. Mentioning the protest and disagreements had huge consequences, therefore the Chinese public had no