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Misinformation In Cecelia Ahern's Flawed

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Misinformation causes the illusion that around you, everything is perfect. Misinformation is a common way that one party systems control their citizens. In “Flawed,” Cecelia Ahern demonstrates that Misinformation can lead one to not see the injustice in their society. Celestine thinks the Flawed system is perfect and protect her from the “Flawed”, but later she ties to help one of the “Flawed” to his seat because he is old and instead is found flawed herself. She wants to reveal that Flawed System in wrong. Firstly, Ahern shows the misinformation is used to control citizens with the whistle blowers, who take custody and hide how badly flawed are treated. When “Flawed” miss then curfew at 11:00 their family can be taken away shown by when Colleen exclaims, “My family was taken for a week” (Ahern 218) when her mom misses curfew to show her friends the importance of her getting back by curfew. Ahern shows the unknown and unjust punishment threw both Celestine and Colleen’s experiments. North Korea also hides information from their citizens because it uses “three generation of punishments” (U.S. Department of State). Three generation of punishment is if you get caught doing a crime, you and two generations …show more content…

Ahern shows that Cravan is worried when Celestine thinks to herself, “Cravan really is hiding what he has done to me” (Ahern 199). This shows that if information of what he has done got out, he would be taken out of office and could bring him down. Similar things happen in the real world with China. China has social credit scores to prevent citizens to find information about the government be having crazy social standards. Yi a Chinese citizen fears that she might do, “unsociable behavior might also impact her score” (How). The Chinese government is trying to keep their citizens from finding out something about their

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