During beatty's long speech to montag, he tells montag that, above all, "people want to be happy." he insists that the work that the firemen do—burning books that promote differences of opinion or that might offend one group or another—is all done in the name of promoting happiness. the books that people are still permitted to read, comic books and the like, are legal because they promote happiness. yet montag is not happy. why do the books that allegedly promote happiness not montag? how does beatty's speech lead montag to read the books that he has stolen at the end of "the hearth and the salamander"?

What kind of word is the pronoun in bold letters? the car will be yours when you pay your last car payment.

What difference do you notice between this passage and contemporary pose.

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion