Author Austin Cline’s purpose of writing about book-burning was to prove a point that burning books had an underlying meaning and that the people who burned books would eventually burn people too. The people who burned books didn't just burn the books because they disagreed with them but because they believed that the books were a serious threat. He uses author Heinrich Heine as a good example of what people believe would happen when they burned books. “That was mere foreplay. Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings” (Heine). Heine was one of the few people who suspected that something more sinister would come out of book-burning. “Permanent elimination of the message requires permanently eliminating the authors