The Sieve and the Sand is very powerful. Montag is getting all of this information. As he is taking it in, he must process it too. It pours into his head like sand in an hourglass. It all must go in slowly or he won't understand it. Since they were only crammed, they never thought through what they had read. "Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information" (Beatty 61). The sand represents the books that have been banned. The sand had stopped or had been blocked from the world. Like the books that had been censored or banned. They did not want a leak. Then no one will ever really know what it was like before.
He begins to read the books to Mildred and they have to read them over and over again. "I feel alive for the first time in years
" (Montag 131). Now he can finally do what he wants because he sees thing from a different perspective. Montag also meets up with Faber and he gives Montag a load of information about the past, and about books and the government. He called himself weak since he didn't keep reading. He just stopped because of his fear. Faber gave Montag and earpiece in the shape of a bullet. He had to get inside his head. Faber would give him info on what to do.
Since Montag had this information poured into his head, he has changed his view on the world around him. He can now make bolder moves. "Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against" (Beatty 58). He is stirring the sand in the hourglass so that more falls through and he can learn. He reads things to other people now
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