1) They laugh to that because that was an overrated cliché that has been used so many times and they think that he has nothing better to say and that's why they laugh.
2) Montag still cares for Mildred because after all the things they have gone through, he still cares for her because he has spent most of his life living with her and he has nobody else. I think that the author wants us to know that Mildred was a big impact to Montag's life, who made him who he is at the beginning of the book.
3) The hands symbolize the characters of Granger's grandfather and Mildred because the hands represent what they did with their life and that the hand has a mind of its own and that the things that it does are on you. Your hands are what gives life purpose because without hands we wouldn't be able to do work.
4) Granger's remembrance of his grandfather is parallel's to Faber's telling Montag that it wasn't the books that were important, but what was in the books that were important. Faber is saying that the only important thing of the book is the information it had to give those who needed it. This is the same in Granger's remembrance of his grandfather because he said that he doesn't cry for his grandfather but he cries for what he did and the things that he could have done if he was still alive. These two talks are the same in a way the tells us a deeper meaning to the conversation they had in the books and about what they are actually trying to tell us.
5) The three seconds are "all of the time in history' because those are the last 3 seconds that the people in the city have to live and it's all over because a bomb was dropped down to the ground and when it hits all life in the city is gone. This is why the 3 seconds are like the last seconds in history because after it drops there won't be a history of those who lost their lives in the explosion when the bomb hit.
6) The significance of the Phoenix is to compare the difference between it and us. The Phoenix lives life long but it burns itself just to be reborn and never learns from its mistakes but humans have a history in which they know what they have done and as long as we have the information of what we have done in the past we have the future to fix the things we want, unlike the Phoenix.
7) The significance of this scene is that Montag is becoming a leader and that he has changed a lot since the beginning of the book. Montag has grown to a man that isn't afraid to show who he really is because, in the beginning, he used to only obey what others told him what to do and now he makes his own choices with what to do.
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