What Would they Give In North Korea all websites are under government control and only about 4% of the population has internet. The people in North Korea would give so much in order to have the power to think freely . Some believe that the more choices that there are the lost joy that there actually will be. But it should be the people are able to think freely in order to see what the point of living is because it creates people that are caring, a more diverse society, and one that is open-minded and considerate of others’ perspectives. In order for people to see the point of living they need to be able to think freely. In schools around the country the students are not being taught how to live and the importance of life, but “schools have …show more content…
In Fahrenheit 451 Montag is actually questioned about his emotions for the first time “Are you happy” and Montag defensively says, “Am I happy? Of course I am happy.” But he finds out later that he isn’t really happy, he only thinks that he is happy because his whole life he has been told that he is happy. Another example of people are only doing what they are told and not truly thinking for themselves is in A Long Way Gone “My rule was kill or be killed. The extent of my thoughts didn’t go much beyond that.” Ishmael right now is told to kill or that he was going to die and given drugs so much that he had become so mindless that that was the only thing that he could think. But some people believe that if everybody is thinking the same then there is no way for everybody to be happy. “The bigger your market, the less you handle controversy, remember that!” But without controversy then people aren’t able to grow any further, they are forced to stay right where they are. When people are having their own ideas and there is a lot of controversy the people still care about about other people's