Ray Bradbury used many different symbols in his novel Fahrenheit 451, but he used six specific symbols to really tell the story. The first of these symbols is the Phoenix. In Mediterranean mythologies, the phoenix is a bird that is consumed by fire but then rises from the ashes. The phoenix represents renewal, and the life that follows death. After the city is leveled by bombs, the character Granger directly compares humans and the story of the phoenix. The next symbol is the Salamander. The firemen’s uniform has the image of a salamander and the fire truck is referred to as the salamander. Salamanders were once believed to be able to live in fire without being engrossed by it. So the fire truck and the firemen start fires but get out before
