In the story Fahrenheit 451 in part one its titled "The Hearth and the Salamander". The author uses these title because in mythology salamanders represent fire which is capable of starting and putting fires. This can relate to Montag because since he is a firefighter he starts fired by burning books. That's what I think the author chose that title for part one. " It was a pleasure to burn. It was a pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed" in this quote the assumption that the reader could make is that the firemen don't like books. They burn books because they think that books are not useful. The author chose to characterize a water hose with a great python because since the water hose shots to put down fires. The great python just shoots venom. They both relate because they both do something when they shoot. It is a negative thing that they are doing because they just start fires. At first I was confused I did not know what F451...