times” (105). As noted, Bradbury uses this metaphor to symbolize and reveal the oppressive relationship between the government and its people. This relationship is compared to the dictatorial relationship between sheep and their shepherds. In this case, Montag is the sheep and the controlling government is the shepherd. Beatty explains it as wandering because, in the same way that sheep escape the strict conditions of their shepherds, people in this society sometimes try to think and rebel against the rules. Montag has lost his way and in this part of the book he is not willing to return to work after the incident with the old woman. He realizes how much insight she gave him into his inner self and that she had to die for something important. Furthermore, this example of oppression from the book shows that the government thinks it has succeeded in controlling the knowledge that people can acquire, so that if no one has more sensitivity than them, who can oppose their decisions? Additionally, another reference in the novel that illustrates the metaphorical device as a means of showing oppression is when Montag speaks to Faber about the rebellion. However, Faber thinks it is too late and is not willing to take any risks at first. Faber quotes: “Why waste your last hours running around your cage denying that you are a squirrel” (68). This example of metaphor compares the inhabitants of 451 to squirrels locked in a cage. People have been censored from everything outside of this cage they have been locked in, all the same. Faber explains that these are Montag's final hours because no one, including him, acted when it could have changed the outcome, but now he is trying to change his society after everyone has already been sucked in. . middle of paper.... ..ges his thoughts on her and on her entire society. Montag is revealed to be human, unlike the rest of society, but he is still limited in his ability to speak due to the strict conditions imposed. The author of Fahrenheit 451, through Foil, Similes and Metaphors, has shown us a practical and effective way to present how the theme of oppression is used in this novel. This shows how the government unfairly controlled its people and how the people sucked into the orders could not think straight. People began to appreciate the sad, as the novel repeatedly shows. Without Montag, people would not realize, even after the war, that what they were doing was wrong. Dealing with mass culture to think and say the same things will result in a boring, empty and gray world, people will turn to machines, doing the same thing every day, not rebelling against orders..