Montag realizes that Beatty wanted to die: "In the middle of crying Montag knew it for the truth . . . He had just stood there not really trying to save himself . . ." (108).
There are two ways to look at this.
First, is Montag just telling himself this to ease his guilt? When reading the showdown between Montag, holding the flamethrower and having just burned his house and books, and the..
Answer:
metaphor
Explanation: The sentence is describing without using like or as.
If you mean which sentance best represents the moral of the story then it would be the second to last sentence: "At last a Wolf really did come, and the Boy cried, "Wolf! wolf!" as loud as he could: but the people were so used to hearing him call that they took no notice of his cries for help."