Why is Montag and his team of firefighters commanded to burn books? What sort of thing would lead a group of men who once put out fires to start them and burn the greatest creations of mankind? Since there have been many instances throughout the chapter “The Hearth and the Salamander” where the government has been hinted at, one can only assume that it has to do with a hierarchy force. Perhaps the government has some sort of brainwashing power over the people. We can see this theory being alluded to when talking about the Mechanical Hound and how Captain says, “It doesn’t think anything we don’t want it to think.” This could possibly be what the government is doing to the people, basically programing them to act and think they way they want
