In "The Life of the Mind of Meaning: Reflection on "Fahrenheit 451" by Rodney A. Smolla Guy Montag is a fireman. Firemen are always on alert to set houses on fire instead of putting them out. They start fires to burn books. The firemen use a robotic beast referred to as a Mechanical Hound to go after criminals that are secretly holding books. It becomes rough for Montag when his assignments cause him to go from burning down books to burning people. Then Montag would secretly rescue books, whenever he would go to work, and Mildred was disturbed. Beatty senses what is going on with Montag so he seeks to mentor him. However, Montag is very curious about how the book burning began. Beatty cheerily explains to him that the burning of books did not
