Front porches, gardens, and rocking chairs all represent family, thought, conversation, and general enjoyment. These items are often found around family homes and people relax and converse with them. The same way books were enjoyable to many people, front porches, gardens, and rocking chairs are. When the government discouraged too much thinking or fun in general, they were able to control their citizens by encouraging an addiction to technology and wiping conflict from life. The removal of these items discouraged critical thinking, as Beatty explained to Montag. He stated, “[Clarisse] didn’t want to know how a thing was done but why…You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it.” (Bradbury 57) Besides
