It was a known law in the novel that books were against the law, but unfortunately not everyone obeyed this law. One day, while Montag was at work, the firefighters received a call for service, when they arrived at the pre-arranged location they found a woman who was not willing to give up her books. Beatty and the other firefighters tried to convince her to come out of the house so it could be burned, but she refused, as a result Beatty ordered the fire to continue. "The woman's hand twitched on the single match. The kerosene vapors bloomed around her" (11). The woman killed in the fire represented the type of person that the authorities did not want in their society, she represented a person with knowledge. The firefighters used fire to take away knowledge, because she read books and was aware of what the government was trying to hide from society. To illustrate the dominion that fire gave to people, on one particular day Montag decided to explore the books he had, as he was reading a passage from Samuel Johnson that caught his attention. Because of this Mildred became nervous that her husband had books, her greatest fear was that Beatty would return to visit them. In return Montag retaliates by shouting "I've heard rumors of hate too, from time to time over the years. Do you know why? Not me, that's for sure! Maybe books can get us half out of the situation." grotto. They could keep us from making the same damn mistakes!" (185). Everyone in Montag's society has been placed in a box of ignorance which refers to knowledge being taken away from society. The government using fire to take away knowledge has taken away the each individual's ability to have a basic understanding of what the world is really like. Montag recognizes this fault when he was arguing with him