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A Allusion to the legend of the Phoenix bird in Religion. The Phoenix is a large, faithful, and magical bird that sets itself on fire and is then reborn again. When Eve taken the apple, she tempted the animals in the

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"There was a silly damn bird called a Phoenix back before Christ, but 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."

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"He wanted, above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house."

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A Metaphor comparing the books to pigeons. Bradbury uses the metaphor to give life and meaning to the books instead of being objects that Montag enjoys burning. It is also a form of imagery to describe how the books looked while they were being burned.

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The myth of Icarus and Daedalus - Amy Adkins

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An Alluison to the Greek myth of Icarus and Daedal. Icarus and his father Daedal attempt to escape Crete by using wings made of wax. Daedal warns Icarus not to fly too close to the sun or the wax will melt but Icarus becomes arrogant and ends up melting his wings and falling to his death.

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The myth of Icarus symbolizes the terrible consequences of carelessness and arrogance. Once Montag realizes the importance of books and how brainless society is he becomes careless and arrogant and pulls out a book and reads to Mildred and her friends despite being warned not to which results in Montag's downfall.

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"old Montag wanted to fly near the Sun and now that he burnt his damn wings, he wonders why" (113)