Montag knows that he needs help to understand these books. He recalls a time over a year ago when met an English professor in a nearby park. It was apparent that the man had been reading a book of poetry, but he quickly put it away when Montag approached. However, Montag had assured him he was not looking to get the man in trouble, and they talked for some time. The man, whose name was Faber, had given Montag a card with his phone number and address.
After recalling this scenario, Montag decides to call Faber and ask for help. However, when they speak, Faber believes Montag is trying to trick him, and so he hangs up the phone. Montag returns to his books, and he realizes that the book he stole from the old woman's house is a copy of the Bible.
He finds himself wondering if it might very well be the last copy in existence. He knows that if he doesn't turn it in to Beatty, he might be in trouble, so he decides to have a copy made. For this, however, he needs help. He takes the subway to Faber's home and, while on the subway, he tries-unsuccessfully-to read some of the Bible. The title of this chapter comes from a memory that Montag relates to his reading of the Bible. The memory is about a time when he played on the beach when he was younger.
He would attempt to fill a sieve, or a strainer, with sand because a cousin had promised him a dime as a reward if he could. Of course, Montag is unable to do this because the sand came right out through the holes of the sieve-he was unable to move fast enough to fill the sieve completely at once. As Montag reads the Bible, he hopes that if he reads as much as he can, some of it won't sift through the metaphorical sieve of his mind. This metaphor seems to suggest how truth and information are elusive, just as keeping sand in a sieve would be.
He knows the book will be confiscated at some point, so he tries to read and memorize as quickly as possible. Here, Faber explains to Montag that the physical books themselves are not as important as the information they contain. Just as the sand will always sift out through the sieve, the human mind will always forget certain particles of information, no matter how hard it tries to remember. Rather than try to consume the information as quickly as possible as Montag does on the subway, Faber believes people should take time to think about what they read and try to understand it, even challenge it, rather than simply accept it as the complete truth.
As Montag runs from the Mechanical Hound after killing Beatty, he wishes he could return to his life from just a few days ago, connecting the change in his life to the analogy of the sieve and the sand. That moment on the subway, when Montag remembered the incident from his childhood and related it to trying to capture an intangible truth, is when he realized he could no longer exist in the world as it was. He knew he could not be happy around ignorant people such as Mildred when he longed to learn more about the world.
Ace your assignments with our guide to Fahrenheit ! SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Why did the government ban books? The title refers to a childhood memory of Montag trying to fill a sieve with sand. He also tells Montag that books have pores and the more pores books have, the more information they have within them.
First, Beatty accuses Montag of being a traitor outside his own home, but Montag grabs the flamethrower and turns it on his captain. In the book, he kills Beatty — in part, because Beatty wants to be killed — but in the movie, Montag lets him live. Later, when the firemen are sent to burn down the house of an elderly woman, Montag takes her Bible—an act that he thinks his hand has undertaken on its own—and the woman chooses to die with her books. Once inside, Beatty tells Montag that he anticipated Montag would call in sick.
He says that all firemen, at some point, struggle with the issues now bothering Montag. Beatty then tells Montag the real history of firemen, beginning with the development of mass media. The protagonist, Guy Montag, is a fireman whose job is to burn down houses in which books have been discovered. It was banned, ironically, because one of the books that eventually gets banned and burned is the Bible.
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