"Welcome back from the dead"(Bradbury 150).
After finding the others who are running away, Montag has stumbled across new life. Due to the parlor walls, the world believes he is dead. If the parlor walls say it, the people believe it. Montag is dead to them. This allows Montag to, in a way, start fresh. He has new outlooks, new realizations, all which have helped him to put the world in a better perspective. With the help of the men he meets, he just might be able to survive. Montag was the to the world, and dead in his robotic mind, but now he is alive. Alive, and ready to go.
"It was not burning. It was warming"(Bradbury 145).
Montag is beginning to see how closed he was to the world around him before. He sees that the sun, time, and burning are all interconnected. But he also sees the difference between the way the sun burns and the way in which the firemen burn. The sun burns to cause light, to be constructive, helpful, where as the firemen burn to destruct and keep people living in darkness. The firemen burn, and scald, and bring about pain. The sun warms, brings gentle light, and opens up the world for people. The sun is Montag's light bulb, it signifies his new ideas and sense of awareness.
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