Post #6 by Ryo

"There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up. He must have been first cousin to Man. But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we're doing the same thing the phoenix never had. We know the damn silly thing we just did. We know all the damn silly things we done for a thousand years and as long as we know that and always have it  around where we can see it, someday we'll stop making the god damn funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them. We pick up a few more people that remember every generation."

Granger, Page 163

This is the very last metaphor used in the novel, and would be the most important metaphor portrayed. This quote outlines the whole plot in Fahrenheit 451 and also provides the answer to the difficulties in this novel. The answer that Granger stated was that it was for people to simply stop the book burning. Like the revival cycle of the Phoenix, the generations of this world had repeated the same actions over and over without trying to regret it or put an end to it. The quote "someday we'll stop the god damn funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them" means that someday the people in the world would stop the cycle of mistakes they created. But presently, nobody would act to cause a change, that is why Ganger included the word "someday" in his quote because at that current time nobody would step out to cause a change in this injustice. Someday would be a time when somebody with great power would step up to cause a difference. But until then people with weak power like Ganger or Montag, would have to wait till somebody makes change.