| Quote #7 "I don't know. We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing. I looked around. The only thing I positively knew was gone was the books I'd burned in ten or twelve years. So I thought books might help." (2.127) |
Do books allow for happiness, or threaten it? After all, they do challenge and confuse, as Beatty points out. Would books really help Montag through this crisis?
| Quote #8 "Ten million men mobilized," Faber's voice whispered in his other ear. "But say one million. It's happier." (2.231) |
If one million deployed soldiers is a happy thing, what does that tell you about violence in this world?
| Quote #9 "We're used to that. We all made the right kind of mistakes, or we wouldn't be here. When we were separate individuals, all we had was rage." (3.316) |
Do Granger and the other people still have rage now that they’ve banded together? What is the advantage in numbers? Are they any more effective than they would have been alone?