Fahrenheit 451 pp. 154-165

1. Ask a question.
I was wondering what was happening on page 158 because I got kind of lost.

2. What does Montag mean when he says, “And when they ask us what we are doing, you can say, we’re remembering” ? Why is this quote important? How does it fit into the novel, what is Bradbury trying to say with this?
I think this quote means that we’re remembering our mistakes so we won’t repeat them. To me this quote relates to the quote on page 163:
“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, over and over, but we’ve got one damn thing the phoenix never had. We know the damn silly thing we just did. We know all the damn silly things we’re 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 goddamn funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them. We pick up a few more people that remember every generation.”
By remembering their mistakes, society will stop burning it’s self over and over again like the phoenix and will be able to live in peace.