One of the scholar-outcasts Montag meets on the railroad tracks in the countryside. Unlike Faber, Granger has had the courage to act on his convictions and leave civilization. He and his comrades memorize works of literature, waiting for the day when books will no longer be banned and humanity is ready to learn from its past.
Granger Quotes in Fahrenheit 451
The Fahrenheit 451 quotes below are all either spoken by Granger or refer to Granger. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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"We're nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise."
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"...We're going to build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them."
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Granger Character Timeline in Fahrenheit 451
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...five old men warming themselves around a fire. They welcome him, and a man named Granger offers him coffee, as well as a beverage that changes the chemical makeup of his...
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...of Ecclesiastes, though only what he's memorized of it since he's lost the physical book. Granger is pleased. He says that there's one other Book of Ecclesiastes, but if anything happens...
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Granger says that he himself is Plato's Republic and another man at the campfire is Marcus...
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Granger explains that thousands of people across the country have memorized books and are lying low,...
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...he doesn't think he'll feel bad if she dies. He can barely even remember her. Granger tries to comfort Montag by telling him about his own late grandfather, a sculptor. Granger...
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...recites them to himself. Once the aftershock of the bombs passes, the men eat breakfast. Granger relates the story of the phoenix, a mythical bird that built a pyre and burned...
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Granger says their job is to remember. The first thing they should do, he says, is...
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