Burning of the Books

Through out this book you can see that the government and the society in this dystopia are trying to complete erase these peoples minds from the past. Like in morgan's blog entry How Do They Know ? she says "How could these people in this novel be so unaware of the reality of their society? This question has yet to be answered in Fahrenheit 451. I have a feeling it has to do with the burning of the books. I'm thinking that they are trying to erase the peoples mind and past by burning all of these books." After reading that it made me think more about the actual burning of the books and how it relates to the government and how it is trying to make the society unaware of the reality. In the novel it says " I don't know. We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy, somethings missing. "(p.82) I think that the thing that is missing is that the people living in this dystopia don't know what the actually reality is of their world. Also that they haven't been able to read books because they all get burned so they can't read the past and what has truly been missing in their lives. That is what why I think these people are unhappy.