"If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out"(Bradbury 115)
When Beatty states this, he is speaking to the mystery and uncertainty of fire. Beatty encourages fire, he lived to burn things. However, what he says is so true. If books continue to be burned, not only the lifetimes of people in history, but also the lifetimes of people to come will be erased. Anything that happens, will be burned into nonexistence. If no one remembers the people who have lived, if no one can learn anything from history, the world will be unable to move forward. And, if not watched well, the fires could do more than kill the books and knowledge, they could kill people.
"For everyone nowadays knows, is absolutely certain, that nothing will ever happen to me"(Bradbury115).
This mindset is very relate able. When ever you think of something bad happening, or you hear about something terrible on the news, you automatically think that the odds of it happening to you are slim to none. But when it does happen to you, you have no idea what to do. This is the situation that Guy finds himself in. He never expected to question his job, his beliefs, but now that he does, he is unsure of how to use these new feelings and ideas and put them into action.
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