“His wife stretched on the bed.., her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable. And in her ears the little Seashells, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk, coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind” (58).
Knowledge is important and can be bad but not having knowledge affects the community in many ways and can limit people and the power we have because knowledge is power.
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Granger is intelligent, patient, and confident in the strength of the human spirit. He is committed to preserving literature through the current Dark Age of book burning. Unlike Faber, Granger has made peace with his own rebellious notions and devised a system to treat them. He completes all this without getting killed which for this novel is a very impressive accomplishment. He’s clearly spent some time thinking about the predicament of mankind and has decided this is the best way to go. It is Granger who reveals the novel’s big important lesson about life being recurring. Mankind builds up a accumulation of knowledge and then he destroys it and falls into a dark age. “It is only in nature that Montag is able to think clearly and draw conclusions from his