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? Be sure to include the problem with minority opinions, individual thought, and the historical conditions that made this possible. Use quotations and other evidence from the text in your response.
A:
The reason that captain Beatty says that the firemen are the happiness boys is because they are the ones that clear up the minds of other people. He believes that by erasing someone's books he would make people happy and also make peace. He thinks that he is making scientists happy because books just disprove someone's ideas or calling their thoughts stupid. One other thing that he says is that he also gets rid of books that have thoughts that are against minorities so he also gets rid of those kinds of books. One thing that he says is that books say nothing so there is nopoint in keeping them. That is what he said in the book. Another thing that he told Montag after he found out that Montag found the book was that if he didn't get rid of the book in twenty four hours he would burn the book himself so that means that Beatty doesn't know what books have in them. Beatty also believes that it is better not to be educated and just be go on and not know anything because you may not believe it
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