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

Power of Books (Jazlin)

I believe Beatty is trying to say that books have a power that draws you towards them and if you read them you get very passionate to know whats next you keep reading. I think his society thought it was easier to ban books than to teach people to think because either they were worried where thinking people would lead them. For example it could lead them to where a lot people fight for their rights their own freedom or some it could drive them to madness thinking is powerful thing that can really set you off. But thinking has very affects a lot of people get smarter and create things. Do I see this happening in our world, I would say yes but honestly it's to late for that, if there were a reason to ban/burn books I think it would because technology is just to advanced and they don't see a reason for them. We already have where to buy books online and read through ipad's, kendle's, computer's and ect. But there really isn't a reason I see to ban books unless it's that about the technology, because to make people stop thinking that won't do anything.