![]() ![]() The ideas they protect are crucial to the functioning of the human spirit and promise that when PACT (“Preserving American Culture and Traditions”) is defeated, society can return to their previous values. The books they preserve, in public and in secret, ensure that thousands of years of knowledge are not erased for good. Libraries, often considered a dying institution in modern America, provide a refuge for books, ideas, and people. Libraries become the only source of books few people enter them, making them the ideal location for underground activism. The absence of books from school spaces highlights their importance and emphasizes the government’s fear of their power. ![]() Because books are open to interpretation, they are a source of learning that go beyond any government’s powers. Books are removed from schools in Ng’s dystopian America, because books contain ideas that can’t be controlled by the government. ![]()
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