Symbol Analysis
The Sieve and the Sand
While on a train, Montag was trying to read the bible. He had only a day to read as much as he could and to take in as much information. On page 78 he thought, ” in a few hours, there will be Beatty, and here will be me handing this over, so no phrase must escape me, each line must be memorized.” He thought that maybe if he read faster, than he will remember more and some of the books information will stick. He kept getting distracted by an advertisement announcement. He kept reading faster and faster without taking in any information.
This reminded him of when he was young, and a cousin was going to give him a dime if he could fill a sieve with sand, ”And the faster he poured, the faster it sifted through