Society does many things to try and manipulate its people into thinking and acting a certain way. In Fahrenheit 451, the government made books illegal so that they could control big ideas and how people think. The government believes that a,“ book is a loaded gun”, and they think that it will, “ breach [a] man’s mind”(Bradbury 58). In this dystopian society, the government does not want people to think or learn, they just want people to exist. Society pushes people to just go with the flow and isolate the people that do think think and question things. They portray books as weapons and intellectuals as terrorists, all to control the way people think in society. However, manipulation of people can come in a different way. In the 5th Wave, the