A Book is a loaded Gun (Juan)

Juan Morales

4/17/13

Block 3

I was confused by the quote that Beatty mentioned. The books are giving the power of destroying, destroying peoples lives and or their way of living/ changing the person’s way of thinking and wanting to live. I think the society decided to band books because that was the cause it made people think when they were not supposed to think. The books were a symbol and comparison to guns because guns don’t kill people with weird thoughts killed other people. The books were used as a weapon and that why the firemen would burn them because they were like guns and guns gave people different mind thoughts and possibly cause crimes because of those thoughts. The books were a loaded gun in hands of all kinds of people and well the mechanical hound was a cop and the salamander was a fire truck. To were they both are supposed to prevent crimes and fires and or even accidents like people catching a book. Montag has books hidden in his house and his wife finds them and decides to call the salamander and well Montag is made to burn his house because he was keeping books when and while he was a firemen