In Ray Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451, what are some connections can you make in Part Three, entitled "Burning Bright?"

In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451,
there are several things I connect with. The first is Mildred's betrayal of Montag. This
is a clear indication of just how far apart this married couple has become. It is as if
they really don't know each other anymore, and Mildred—a
stranger more than a wife—has betrayed Montag to Beatty and the
others.

Another thing extremely obvious to me is the
reversal of positions: of Montag, the fireman who burns houses with
books, and Montag, the lawbreaker whose house is burned because of
books. In this case, the burning of the home previously where the old woman not only
refused to abandon her books, but lit the match herself, feels like foreshadowing of
this moment in Montag's life. He was appalled when he witnessed the
old woman's death because of her commitment to books, and now it has become
his reality: he is experiencing first- hand what he has been
responsible for doing to others, throughout all the time he has been a fireman—it has
now becomes his turn, as with the old woman, to decide how
important having books is to him.

It
is in this section that Montag chooses to change his life forever. First, he kills
Beatty, showing how far he is willing
to go; next he plants books in Black's house and reports his fellow-firefighter for
having them; he runs from the Mechanical Hound—"beating" it; and, makes it across the
river to join others like him who have chosen to leave society to read, share, memorize,
and enjoy the knowledge of books—to build a new place to
live.

Granger, one of the men Guy Montag meets on the other
side, likens the destruction of their society, as well as their plan to rebuild, to the
mythical phoenix:

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There was a silly damned bird called a phoenix
back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up...But
every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over
again. And it looks like we're doing the same
thing...

The third section of
the book, in an odd way, is like Montag's religious conversion (theme: change
and transformation). Montag had heard "the Word" before, from people like
Clarissa and Faber, but had been slow to move or change. The conversion is a dark one,
with the ghastly murder of Beatty, but symbolically this represents rejection of an old
way of life to make way for the new. In this story of growing self-awareness and
rebellion, Montag becomes a "founding-father" of a new society.