Imagine that you have no knowledge of what happened in the past before you were born. You can’t read about it because your Government has forbidden the reading of books. You can’t hide them because there are no books left to read because they get burnt. The Government thinks that past knowledge is not important in the book. In the book, knowledge is not allowed to be learned. It is all controlled by the government. They can’t read books or look things up because it is all regulated and censored. The Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in real life tried burning books and regulating knowledge. Ironically the nations failed just like the one in “Fahrenheit 451”. In the book nobody knows about what happened before they were born. There were people asking if fireman used to put out fires rather than start them. They don’t know that they aren't really part of a T.V. show. They are all brainwashed to believe that the world they are in was a utopia. In real life, communist countries such as the Soviet Union, brainwashed their citizens to view the “west” as the enemy when in reality, they were. Also, the Soviet Union change information in textbooks and never taught math because math is required to count money and only people with their own businesses had to count a lot money. Private businesses were not allowed in the Soviet …show more content…
In a world where things are complicated and require skill books and things to read are definitely important. Without books we wouldn't be able to function as a society. For example, if we got rid of all history books and future generations were not told about it, history would repeat itself. Future generations wouldn't learn from the past. Or if everyone in the future forgot about man made disasters it would happen again because nobody would know how to prevent it. If we look at chernobyl, future generations installed safety features into nuclear reactors that prevents them from melting. We learn from our