Sieve and the sand
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
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Faber Montag, Sieve Sand, Beatty Bible, faber montag, sand hourglass, read books, sieve sand,
Approximate Word count = 579
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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