Why do you think Montag, Granger, and the rest head toward the ruined city?

Toward
the end of the novel, Montag and the group of traveling intellectuals watch from a distance as
Bradbury's dystopian society is destroyed by an atomic bomb. Following the blast, Granger
creates a small fire and tells the intellectuals that they will have a bite to eat before
walking toward the destroyed city. Granger then begins talking about the phoenix, a mythical
bird that would burn itself every few hundred years before rising from the ashes, and relates
the story to how civilization will eventually rebuild itself. The group of traveling
intellectuals then walks towards the ruins of the city in hopes of rebuilding a literate society
that cherishes knowledge, history, and literature. Granger elaborates on their mission by
telling the group of men,

We're going to meet a lot of
lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what
we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run
(Bradbury 76).

As intellectuals who have studied and
remembered significant works of literature by heart, Granger, Montag, and the group of hobos
wish to educate the surviving citizens and positively impact the next generation. While Montag
is walking toward the city, he begins to remember verses from the Book of Ecclesiastes and
Revelation that correspond to his situation. To conclude, Montag and the traveling
intellectuals walk toward the city in hopes of rebuilding a literate, civilized society by using
classic works of literature and knowledge they preserved from the past to educate the surviving
citizens.