I think the story tell us about a possible world without books, in which people can not read or they will be punished with something very serious, it also tries to tell us how injustice can reach such a high level of ignorance. From my point of view, book are very important for education and to learn many things and have general culture, in my case i do not read much but I know thath books are very important for the development of our lives, and to be able to know a lot in such a way if thes disappear, we would live in a very monotonous world, giving way to a place without creativity or thoughts of our own.