Fahrenheit 451 Response

"Let's not quibble over individuals with memoriums. Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean." (p.60) In the quote above Beatty, Guy Montag's boss, is describing the fate of the decessed, just ten minutes after death. How is it possible to forget someone you love, and watch their lifeless body wisked away to be thrown into a firey inferno? The world in this novel is not only distrubing, but errie; A world when everything we know as right is either wrong or unheard of. Fire is described as clean and bright, when really it is a way to get rid of evidence of somethings existance. The government wansts everyone to think they're happy, and with all the unhappiness asociated with death, it is impossible, so they burn everything and everyone to make you forget.