"At every few moments the fury of the crowd boiled over and the voice of the speaker was drowned by a wild beastlike roaring that rose uncontrollably from thousands of throats. The most savage yells of all came from the schoolchildren. The speech had been proceeding for perhaps twenty minutes..." (Page 181)
It amazes and disgusts me how easily the mind of a human can be altered and distorted. And it amazes me and disgusts me even greater that someone would be okay with altering and distorting the minds of people just like them, especially the children! Constantly throughout this book I have been thinking about times in the world where human nature has been deceived, for instance McCarthyism and Hitler. It just seems so wrong that anyone with a big ego and enough scare tactics, can change and affect so many people. I am also concerned by the fact that people, in times of fear, can be so easily persuaded into finding a common enemy to distract them from their own problems. This is also known as using a scapegoat.
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