A Crime Against Society?

Montag escapes from the city and loses the helicopters and dogs at the river. When he loses them the news coverage keeps on going and acting like their chasing him. That really made me hink why didn't they just tell the audience that Montag escaped?

In Fahrenheit 451, the government has too much control over society and have to have things their way. So I think the government doesn't want enlightened people to go revolt and sort of keep the "readers" in their place. If the government would come out and say that they lost Montag, they would present themselves as inferior and that's what they are afraid of.

Usually you think of events such as 9/11 as crimes against society. Montag's crime was only destroying a mechanical dog and supposively killing Beatty. In today's world people do far worse things than destroying a machine and killing a man. People do things like crash planes into buildings,that is definately not on the same level as murdering one man and a machine. The government just wants to keep people scared to read and intimidate them. Basically they are just getting at Montag because the government thiks reading is a crime against society, but the real crime is not letting people read.


-Kody Heitz