The government banned books and banned people from reading, except for the fireman's manuel and a few other things. Since the government banned books many people hid their books. The firemen got a mechanical hound that can detect books in houses. When the hound finds a house with books in it alerts the firemen and they burn the house and the person who owned the books goes off to jail. This causes people to be afraid of possessing books , and it just draws people closer to their tv screens. This also causes people to have less emotions, and it causes a high suicide rate. The reason that the government got rid of books in the first place is because it caused people to feel emotions that they didn't like, so books got