The Sieve In Fahrenheit 451

Montag's desire to acquire knowledge through books is dealt with by the rulers is that Montag’s boss, Beatty, says it was normal for a fireman to go through these phases of fascination of what books have to offer. Beatty tells Montag,” What traitors books can be! You think they’re backing you up, and then they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.” But, Beatty is missing the point on how valuable books can be. So Beatty tells Montag to read through all of the books Montag has stashed to see if the books contain anything worthwhile, then the next day turn them in to be burned.

Later in the book, Montag was on the train trying to memorize the bible in fear that he could have the last copy. He was reading as fast as possible hoping that the information in the bible would stay in his mind. An advertisement was making him loose concentration and therefore the information was slipping through his mind. It reminded him of the “Sieve and the Sand” incident from earlier in his life that was so upsetting to him. The modern world in the novel counts on this inability to concentrate. This life without books has encouraged people to live for moment so to speak. Everywhere you go there’s mindless sound such as the advertisement that makes people to be unable concentrate and seriously think. People who can't think are more easily controlled. Montag feel as if banning books has made people's minds turn into sieves unable to hold thought.

The professor showed Montag that books have details, significance, and are valuable. Through Montag’s encounters with Clarisse, the old woman and Faber, he realizes that the time he had spent burning books was wrong. This persuaded him to change his life.

Montag is wondering what is inside books that could further his ideas since he has been hooked to clarisse’s world. The significance to the claim is that Montag wants to be lively like clarrise instead of boring fireman, and there is no other way to be like that without the imagination and creativity in books. “ Not if you start talking, the start of talking that might set me burnt for my trouble” (Bradbury 87). Montag is starting to notice his speech is more developed like a book reader, Beatty is catching on! The significance of this quote is that Montag is starting to be like Clarisse and he likes that a lot. Montag likes being free, and calm with the world and books gave him

This book also describes Montag’s inner conflict with himself, how our society would drastically change without information provided in books, and the difference in technology we would face in the future. In the end this book teaches us how important it is to keep books around until the end on time so we don’t repeat the past or keep our people as smart as they can be because books impact our lives every single

Another incident that stayed in Montag 's mind is the old women who set her self and her books on fire. However, Montag tried stopping her by telling her that the books were not worth her life. Before she burned herself, Montag took one of her books and kept it. At that time Montag did not think about what did the old lady burned herself with the books, he did not think about it might be the value and morals that books hold to teach is. The old lady knew the importance of these books and what do they have, so she preferred to burn herself with them, and not watch the firemen burn them, who do not even know the importance of books. But they do know that books are unreal and there is so importance of them, plus they are against the law!

In this society, it is important to read a book for own knowledge. However, in novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, people are not allowed to read any book nor have any desires to read. They do not know the importance of the book. However, in this novel, three people influence Montag that human should read books and allows him to realize how important it is to do so.

Montag is now at the point where his views are being tested and new beliefs of life are being created. “Montag had done nothing. His hand had done it all, his hand, with a brain of its own, with a conscience and a curiosity in each trembling finger, had turned thief” (35). Here Montag sees a plethora of books inside of Mrs. Blake’s house and seemingly of its own accord Montag’s hand takes a book. He has now broken a rule that everyone in Montag’s society knows, never to take or read books. Mrs. Blakes, instead of coming with the firemen out of the house decides to burn with the books. This confuses Montag and piques his curiosity to figure out what inside the book could drive someone to die with

Montag grows consistently dissatisfied with his life and work the more he talks with Clarisse. He starts to ponder if perhaps books aren’t so bad, and even snatches one from one of his book burning missions. Meanwhile Clarisse disappears, which I assumed she was dead and his boss, Captain Beatty, is growing suspicious. He lectures Montag on the potential hazards of books and explains the origin and history of their profession. Far from rejuvenated, Montag feels blazing anger and becomes more dangerously rebellious than ever. He spends one afternoon with his wife reading his secret stash of books he’s been storing behind his ventilator grill and decides he needs a teacher. He takes a Christian Bible and tries to memorize some of it on his trip.

“‘More sports for everyone, group spirit, fun, and you don’t have to think, eh? Organize and organize and superorganize super-super sports. More cartoons in books. More pictures. The mind drinks less and less. Impatience. Highways full of crowds going somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, nowhere. The gasoline refugee. Towns turn into motels, people in nomadic surges from place to place, following the noon tides, living tonight in the room where you slept this noon and I the night before.’”(page 57) is what Beatty tells Montag, in a way implying that without books, people don’t have to think, they are mindless in their activities, going one place to another, never really thinking. Fahrenheit 451 is a book about a man in a dystopia who is content until he realises that he is missing out on something, books. His job is to burn books though, so he has to figure out a way to keep the books that he has stolen, his job, and a low profile so his co-workers, ‘friends’, and wife don’t figure him out. When his captain starts to get suspicious about Montag having books, Montag’s life gets a little harder. He has to make the decision when he is confronted with it to kill his captain, run away, and find the book people that will accept him. Montag makes this decision, and because of it he is hunted, but he gets away from his nightmare of a life, it is almost like he gets to restart. Ray Bradbury, the author, suggests that books do not only teach, but with the absence of them, they are

In Montag’s society, because a significant aspect such as knowledge was restricted, technology played a detrimental role in the lives and development of people. As people began to procure mass technology they read less while the technology became significantly advanced. By the twentieth century there was a rise commercialism, and the establishment of the television impacted the development of people, which was reflected in the novel. Although books weren’t appreciated within the society they were significant because they “have quality and pores” meaning one can “find life under the microscope… and the more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life”(79). In other words, books represent the reality that many are afraid to experience.

Montag all throughout your life have you ever noticed the little details that surround you? All around the world there are things other than parlor walls, they are people who truly live and understand true emotion. Don't you want to be one of those people? I may look like a stranger to you, but aren't we all strangers with no connection towards each other. And aren't we more connected to the technology that surrounds all of us, "And if not the three walls soon to be four walls and the dream complete, then it was the open car and Mildred driving a hundred miles an hour across town," (46). Literature may seem like a terrible object, saying that's how you've perceived books your whole life, "His hands had been infected, and soon it

Fahrenheit 451 is an interesting title for a book. The novel is named Fahrenheit 451 because the novel’s main theme is burning books. It takes 451 degrees Fahrenheit for paper to burn, so Fahrenheit 451 represents the temperature required to burn paper. . The firemen in the novel have 451 on their elements because they represent the burning of the books. The title of the first section of this novel is “The Hearth and the Salamander.” Hearths and salamanders are ultimately associated with fire. Hearths are like fire places and they represent warmth and comfort. The second section of the novel is “The Sieve and the Sand”. The title refers to Montages memory as a child trying to fill sieve with sand .He is reminded of this childhood memory when

The character, Beatty, has the most to say about books, being a fire chief and a “custodian of peace of mind.” He says books are dangerous because they make people sad and uneasy, and that the only prevention of such feelings is entertainment and mindless distraction. “Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pushing switches, fitting nuts and bolts?” Beatty warns Montag of the one true villain to watch out for: the well-read man. “Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me? I won’t stomach them for a minute.” He states, “We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.” By this he means that knowledge found in books will make people unhappy, confused and scared. They will ask questions that have no easy answers. An unthinking, blissful society is easy to control, and Beatty wants everyone to know that he takes his job as a protector of society very seriously. “The important thing for you to remember, Montag, is we’re the Happiness Boys, the

The first time I had ever picked up a novel by Ray Bradbury was in my 7th grade school year when I had been assigned to read Fahrenheit 451. An avid reader during middle school, I enjoyed every book and poem I was instructed to read in my English class, however, I never had become so enamored with a story than the one of Guy Montag and his journey to stop the burning of books. I became attracted to the mysterious and dark themes in the story and was drawn in by Bradbury’s very unique writing style. Fascinated by science fiction, I then continued to read other literary works that would have the same tone as Bradbury’s throughout middle school. That is, until the distractions and workload that came with a high school teenager’s life interfered.