#5 im doing discussion questions

Faber is expressing his approval of Montag’s plan to frame his fellow firemen and bring about the collapse of the regime from within. The salamander represents the firemen: resistant heat. Montag's plan to plant books and burn the firemen houses is like Salamander eating his own tail,

"'[p]lant the books, turn in an alarm, and see the firemen's houses burn, is that what you mean?. . . It's an insidious plan, if I do say so myself.’ Faber glanced nervously at his bedroom door. ‘To see the firehouses burn across the land, destroyed as hotbeds of treason. The salamander devours his tail! Ho, God!’"