confusion, and pain so eventually they became extinct. Society wishes the people and not question why. In order too accomplish this objective society has to take away the individual mind that forms from the knowledge it receives. The source of knowledge that the society looks unfavorably upon was books. At first they did not burn books as they thought they could just shorten them. "Classic cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column...whose sole knowledge, as I say, of Hamlet was a one-page digest in a book claimed: now at last you can read all the classics; keep up with your neighbors."(Bradbury 50). By shortening books they believed it would cause fewer thoughts thus leading to less controversy that leads to less confusion and finally less pain. It is those thoughts that instill questions into your mind and this is what the society does not want. Shortening books was not enough so they had to take more drastic measures.In Fahrenheit 451 is a world that does not allow the individual express their own thoughts by destroying all the books that help the human mind to form it's of unique individual way. In the beginning of the novel, we see fire that is used to destroy books. "It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed"(Bradbury 3). This shows how fire is to be seen throughout the novel, as it destroys books that are knowledge. As the books burn and become blackened so do the minds of many become, as they no longer think for themselvesIn this so-called utopia the society has to be on a fast pace so they have no time to think or question; just be happy. Everything in this society is accelerated. "One column, two sentences, a headline! Then, in mid-air, all vanishes! Whirl man's mind around about so fast under pumping hands of publishers, exploiters, broadcasters that the centrifuge flings off all unnecessary, time-wasting thought!"...
