In the last part of this book, there were a couple of references and connections to the Bible. The first one was how he only remembered the book of Ecclesistes. In that book it says that there is "a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build". This directly relates to what the people must do now after their city has been bombed. It has been uprooted, torn down, and killed. Now they must plant, rebuild, and heal as a society. They must realize their mistakes and be born again throught their ashes like a pheonix.
He also quotes Revelations 22:2 saying "on each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yeilding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations". This is reffering to the river of life that God is prophesized to make that runs throught the New Jeruselum. It is to rebuil the world and heal the nations after the apocolopse. Since the city was just bombed like an apocolopse, he sees two trees that he thinks are the trees the Bible reffers to and they will rebuild the world and heal it to its rightful way.
I really dont like the way the book ended. It ended with them traveling back to the city to tell people of books and "convert" them and help them to see their wrongs. It would have beem better to show the world back to normal or at least getting there, not end it before the healing process even begins. Bradbury could have done better.
--RJ Murray
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I don't like how the book ends either, but Bradbury had a reason to end it like this. He wanted to end it with them heading back to the city to leave your mind full of possible things to happen next. Montag and the others are heading back to help the city recover and rebuild from the bombing, but what will they try and do after that...we don't know and that's exactly what Bradbury wanted.
I think that this was a good ending to a book like this. The usual happy ending would not work with a book as controversial as bradbury's fahrenheit 451. Bradbury leaves you with the many possibilities that can happen. This is the point that was brought up in much of the book. It was the fact that just becasue you don't know what's out there doesn't mean that it's bad. You have to give it a try and see what happens
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