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Comparing Ray Bradbury's 'The Sieve And The Sand'

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16. Montag feels horrible for what he did, it made him very uncomfortable. He wanted to be able to read, think and to find the hidden truth. He didn’t want to be a fireman who starts fires anymore; he doesn’t want to continue killing the authors. 17. When schools starting graduating people for non-academic subjects like sports, the word “intellectual” became a swear word. People started living for pleasure and “fun” but books caused a variety of opinions and due to that it caused conflicts. To stop this diversity in opinions and the rise in conflicts, people wanted to get rid of books. Since everything is fireproof, there was no need for firemen to put out fires. So they were given a new job as a “custodians of our peace of mind” by burning books. …show more content…

The title “The Sieve and the Sand” is an allure to the past Montag. When he was child his cousin told him to fill a sieve with sand for a dime. However, it is impossible to fill a sieve with sand for when the sand goes in, it comes out through the bottom, that’s its purpose; to drain out the sand and leave the bigger parts on top. This moment in his past connects with his present conflict. He was raised in a society where they live for the immediate moment, so it was hard for him to memorize a passage. The information he would read would enter his brain and exit through his brain like the sand in the

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Part Two: The Sieve and the Sand B) Critical Analysis: 1) When Montag is reading with his wife, it is raining outside. The parlor indoors is empty and boring because the walls are turned off. It is significant because it represents a change in Montag’s mind. He has got rid of the distractions and starts to think about the meaning of the words. This indicates the beginning of his process of becoming wise and an independent thinker.

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The title refers to Montag's childhood memory of trying to fill a sieve with sand.

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Montag said in his thoughts, “Besides, these fanatics always try suicide; the pattern’s familiar” revealing that it’s so noticeable that the loneliness there society brings them will lead to suicide which is understood by Montag. (39). This shows that even though Montag is one of the fireman who burn the books, he is not even on their sides because Montag is does not agree in the controlling technology. He knows why these citizens are trying to kill themselves, which is because they have no one else like them reading knowledge from books. Furthermore, Montag says how much he sees pursuits of suicide which have became a routine to him already since no one has human contact anymore.

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At the outset, Montag was consumed by the darkness. He was a fireman who started fires instead of dousing them. Asked how long he has done so. He replies, “since I was twenty, 10 years ago.” (5) All the time he was, burning book after book, not knowing the full extent of his actions; he was totally unaware of all the knowledge being destroyed at his hand.

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What is a hero? When people think hero they think of capes, people with superpowers, crime stoppers. What is an actual hero and how do people define them. There are many examples of heros in books such as: Katniss Everdeen, Harry Potter, Bilbo Baggins, etc… Each of these characters stood up for their beliefs and faced many trials because of those beliefs.

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In this part of the book, all of the firemen including Montag received a call to burn a house with the books in there. Here became the turning point for Montag as he saw the woman, who already had made her decision to die rather than live in a world of oppression and restricted freedom of thought which books symbolize in this part, burns with the illegal books in the burning house, refusing to go out without the assurance of the safety of the books. We can suppose that his perception is gradually changing through the phrase showing that Montag felt a huge guilt over this, unlike the other firemen or Beatty. Furthermore, during the conversation with his wife, Mildred, Montag says, “We burn a thousand books. We burnt a woman.

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In conclusion, throughout the entire novel, Montag continuously changes. He goes from loving his job, to rethink his job. In the end, he realizes that his job not only hurts him, but it hurts other people. He refuses to burn houses for the rest of the novel. He finally realizes that it is not good to burn other humans and their houses and

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But now that he sees someone’s life be taken by his enforcement, he starts putting in hard consideration about the very things that are against the laws of his own society and wonders why exactly his society would ban books. (STEWE-3) Eventually, he questions his society so much that Montag starts rebelling by reading books against the rules, now determined to find the answers to his questions about

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After the incident, Montag thought about the suicidal woman and he is confused as to why she would sacrifices her own life for some mere books. Since he’ve been told that books are evil, a spark of curiosity blooms within him. In part two, Montag is desperate for help. After his boss, Beatty, talks to him about the history of firemen and books, Montag is afraid that Beatty knows that he stole a book.

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After Montag indirectly reveals his book ownership to Captain Beatty, he was committing a crime that left him morally conflicted. “Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Do you know why? I don’t, that’s sure! Maybe these books can get us half out of the cave.

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For as long as writers have written books, people have been wanting to ban them. Before the printing press, only a few handwritten copies of each book existed. If leaders deemed a book ‘inappropriate’ or ‘undesirable’, they burned the few copies that existed, ensuring people would no longer read the knowledge

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Montag is extremely curious about books, and the idea of freedom that it drives him crazy. He becomes so crazy that he lies to his wife, and kills his boss. Montag will go to any extent to gain freedom, in the means of breaking laws, and hurting

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All of these different people affect Montag in different ways throughout the novel and make him who he is in the end of the book. They were all very important characters, even though we don’t always agree with everything that they did. There is a quote that describes how we should live our lives so that we don’t end up like the people in this novel. “Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world.

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(Bradbury 8). Montag is faced, for the first time, with having to examine his life and if he is actually happy. It destroys his “mask”, allowing him to see the problems of his life, and, more importantly, society. The new perspective “kills” a part of him, the part that was content with his perfect life (having a good,

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