The mechanical hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the firehouse (page 24)
It doesn't think anything we don't want it to think (page 27)
The mechanical hound symbolizes the members of the society in Fahrenheit 451. It lives but it doesn't really live. Just as the people of the society are alive, but there is nothing to their lives but watching "the family". They think, but just like a programmed hound, they only think what the government wants them to think.
I agree. I would suck to have to live like that. I don't think I found that symbol when I read through the book.
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