Faber’s advice to Montag, “Don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least know you were headed for shore,” is mostly negative, but has a partially positive message intertwined within it. The first part of the advice is strong and makes logical sense. It is important to have a vast and varied support system, so if a tangible or extinguishable saving tool were to vanish, the person would not be completely lost. As the advice states, it is necessary to save oneself. Everyone in life is metaphorically drowning, and a drowning person cannot pull two bodies to shore. However, almost nothing can be done alone. When Montag was mentally and physically lost after running from
