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What does the title of Part 2 mean or refer to and what could it be a
metaphor for? - -"The Sieve and the Sand"
- reference to when his cousin bet with him about finding a dime, while
sifting through sand
- meaning someone is sifting through sand
- sieve:sifter
- the metaphor is that Montag is searching for the answer about books and
fills his sieve with knowledge
-What is the importance of the Denham's Dentifrice commercial? What
might it represent? - -- while Montag tries to memorize the Bible, the
commercial is going on
- society has rendered themselves to mind control
- it shows a form of thought controll
-Why does Montag go to see Faber? - -- Montag is curious about why books
are so interesting and wants to make a plan to frame the firemen
-What does Faber tell Montag about books? - -- it's about the content of the
book, not the physical book
- looking for information that is kept inside the books to understand the
world
-What are 3 things that Faber says are missing? - -- quality of information
and texture
- leisure time to process
- the right to carry all actions based on leisure: actually doing something with
the info
-Describe the parlor women, their views, and their conversational concerns.
- -- their views are the same
- they react in the same way: one track mind
- they wanted to satisfy Montag's desires, so they let Montag read
- emotions: anger, confusion, and fear in reactions
-Why does Montag read "Dover Beach" aloud to the ladies? - -- Montag read
the book to prove to the parlor women and Mildred that books aren't bad
- Montag wanted them to react in shock and try to scare them, to make them
think, to have an emotional response
, -How do the women react? - -- Ms. Phelps starts to cry because she believes
that poems link to sadness
- Ms. Bowles gets angry, yells at Montag and tells Montag that books make
people cry, get hurt, and commit suicide
- Mildred goes to the bathroom and takes sleeping pills
-Who are we introduced to in the first two pages? What is his name and
what do we know about him so far? - -We are introduced to the main
character, Guy Montag. He is a fireman who is 30 years old and has a wife
named Mildred.
-On page 5, we meet a young girl. What is her name and what cold is
associated with her?Write 2 examples of this. - -Clarisse McClellan and she is
associated with the color white. For Example,"fragile milk crystal with a soft
and constant light in it(5)" And "the strangely comfortable and rare and
gently flattering light of the candle"(5).
-On Page 8, we lear more about Montag's job. As a fireman, what exactly
does he do? Why? - -He burns books.
-Clarisse and her family seem to be really different. Write 2 examples of
thins that they do that are very surprising to Montag. - -Montag was
surprised that Clarisse and her family that all the lights in her house were on
and her father, mother, and uncle were just sitting around talking, which
meant that they were up late at night.
-Clarisse tells us about a lot of "normal" things in her society. Give 2
examples of things that are normal in Clarisse and Montag' s society that are
very different from our current way of life. After Clarisse asks him this, he
realizes that he is NOT happy. Why does it bother him? What does he
realize? - -On page 10, Clarisse aks Montag if he is happy. Montag realizes
that he is NOT happy because he is not sure if he is happy or not, realizing
that he masking his happiness.
-There is important simile on page 12. Write the simile here and explain its
meaning. - -An example of a simile is when Montag describes Clarisse, "she
was like an eager watcher of a marionette show"(9). This quote compares
Clarisse to someone who watches a marionette, attentive to everything that
happens around her.
-We meet Montag's wife on pages 12-13. What is her name? What is she
like? - -Montag's wife's name is Mildred and she is very distant and only is
focus on the media.
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