Q:
Captain Beatty tells Montag that firemen are the “happiness boys” and that they are custodians of “our piece of mind.” Why does he say this?
A:
He says that because the fireman burn controversial books. If the books are not there then no one gets offended and everyone is happy. That’s why they are called the “happiness boys”. The books also give people bad ideas and supposedly corrupt their minds. But because there are no books no one has a corrupt mind, which is why Beatty tells Guy they are custodians of “our piece of mind”.
What I am sort of confused on is how captain Beatty knows a lot of book titles and quotes form them. Not so much of quotes, but rather certain ideas. It doesn’t seem to me that Beatty would read the books.
1 comment:
I agree with the fact that they are the "happiness boys" because they make people happy. They burn away the true facts in order to make people happy. But don't you think they will lies all their lives since they only believe in what want and burn the rest? Strange world.
And you also bring up a good point. How does Beatty know the ideas inside the book? Has he gone against his job and read the books?
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