Symbolism In Fahrenheit 451

The story Fahrenheit 451’s part two is named “The Sand and the Sieve” as symbolism of the society that Montag and the other character in the story live. Sand when put through a sieve falls through the openings and leaves objects too big to fit through the holes above, and I believe this is symbolizing the censorship of this dystopian world of Fahrenheit 451. The government is the sieve itself, only choosing specific things to show the people and filtering out books and overall knowledge. If the government is the sieve though, then books are the sand that falls through the cracks, lost forever unable to touch without consequence. This is what I believe to be the meaning of the name “The Sand and the Sieve” because the whole book is about censorship and how the society is left with dull, non-controversial things that could threaten the government, and going along with this is when Faber truly enlightens Montag about the true power of books because of their knowledge and power to cause an up rise that could demolish the

Human interaction in this world that Ray Bradbury had presented us, is not as we know it in our society because when Millie is with her friends there is no talking, just watching. When Montag decides to get Mildred’s friends to talk, he learns how other people think, their unconcern for others whom they are supposed to love and care for like in Mrs. Phelps case where she doesn’t really care about her husband fighting in the war. As Albert Einstein has said, “I fear the day that technology will surpass out human interaction” and this is exactly what happened in Fahrenheit 451, people stopped interacting with each other and just constantly stared at a screen. This is where Montag really realized, I believe, how unknowledgeable and mindless people are in this world and it affects him throughout the book and opens his eyes to the