Answer:
hi, In Fahrenheit 451 any books in possession is illegal. so what happens to book owners when the firemen come to burn their books is that they get put in an asylum for being "insane". these are the consequences for owning a book.
. the government wants most people to be uneducated so that they can have fun rather than learn. The consequences for not following this way of life are going to jail, being put in an asylum, and being criticized.
Evidence from the story to support this would be:
when Montag questions and Beatty answers back, "Montag looked at the cards in his own hands. I-I've been thinking. About the fire last week. About the man whose library we fixed. What happened to him? They took him screaming off to the asylum"
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