Fharenheit 451 154-165

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What does Granger mean when he says, quoting his grandfather, “Shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass”? Why is this quote important? How does it fit into the novel, what is Bradbury trying to say with this?

So I read the afterword. Towards the end of it, Beatty and Montag are talking Montag. Montag goes into Beattys house, there are thousands of book. Montag is in shock, he doesn't know what to think. What I'm wondering is if that is actually true. Beatty says that it is not illegal to own them but to read them, so does he just collect books? That made me a little confused, this was not really in the book, so did it happen or not?

So when he says this, I think he is talking about the government. It is like he was testing the "great sloth", testing its limits. Making it confused, this is important because, this is what Montag was doing throughout the entire book. Going against the government making them start all over. Also when you think of a sloth, you think slow. So the government is going to slowly start-over wondering what went wrong. This has so many metaphors all compiled into a one sentence. This quote is great, the reason why I like it so much is because it is true. If something big happens, the government starts all over, everything begins again. This is what they did to the city, something went wrong to lets blow it up so we can start over and let is happen again. This book is great I am very very happy that Mr.Jana gave us this book to read.
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