A book is a loaded gun (Aaliyah)

I think the target might be anyone, because if people started reading books, then they would have more knowledge then the people that do not read books, the power that he gave them was letting them control him, and by saying “a book is a loaded gun in the house next door”, that could mean who ever is reading the books it is making their life all about books and is loosing sight of the world they live in. I think that they thought it would be easier for everyone to be on the same page, meaning everyone would all know the same thing no one would know more then the other. I can see this happening now to a certain degree, there are things that the government would like to keep hidden form us so that no one would know more then they want us to know. In the book they burned the books to keep them from finding out the truth, or what life could be, or what life was. Now they don’t have to burn books because society has new ways of finding out the truth of what was, what is, and what will be. I think the world would be a better place if everyone had free will to find out what they wanted to know and to keep hidden what they didn’t what to know without having to worry about what would happen if they knew to much.