Fahrenheit 451: The Books And Symbol Of The Phoenix Have you ever watched for a long moment at how birds fly so graceful and freely in the sky? They float with such elegance in the sky, flapping each wing with delicacy. Montag must have felt this about the books in the story , Farenheit 451. Books were forbidden in Montag’s world because they were thought to bring chaos among the people of his society, but in actual reality, it would have brought freedom of oneself to think. Throughout the story, books are constantly compared to as books and connected to the symbol of the phoenix. The world of Fahrenheit 451 is deprived of books, one of the greatest