Granger explains a story about a bird called the phoenix, which represents the society. He refers to it as an allusion by using “before Christ.” In the quote, “every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up” symbolizes Montag's society. This is because the society seems to reinvent itself from the ashes of the burnt books. In this society, they make mistakes and they never try to fix them. The repetition of never fixing the mistakes is continual until the society goes up in flames. At the end of the novel most of their society is destroyed, however Granger wants his group to rebuild the society and not make the same mistakes. In the statement, “We know the damn silly thing we just did,” Granger states that society has the ability