Fahrenheit 451 the "Sieve and

Fahrenheit 451 The "Sieve and the Sand": The sieve and the sand is a metaphorical reference to the fact that the banning of all books in society necessarily means that the only way to remember anything learned from reading them illegally is to memorize them verbatim in the manner that Granger and his group of outlaws tried to preserve knowledge and literature.

Montag is tremendously frustrated by his inability to do the same thing as though the words and all the information he tries to memorize are sand and his mind is the sieve through which all the grains of sand slip. He tries to read as fast as possible to accumulate knowledge, but is unable to do so. Paragraph 2 - Three Elements Missing from Society: According to Faber, the first crucial element missing from society is quality, factual information.

In their society, the government prevents people from acquiring any meaningful knowledge or critical thinking skills by purposely providing the means to keep them occupied in superficial games and hedonistic distractions. By broadcasting entertainment that absorbs their full attention, the government ensures that citizens never learn anything that could be used to acquire political power or the basis for questioning or challenging any government action.

The second crucial element missing from society, in Faber's explanation, is the leisure time among citizens to critically analyze or even think at all about any meaningful information they should come across in their lives. Because the government has become so successful at capturing their attention in simple forms of entertainment, people lack the necessary motivation to take time away from those enjoyable pursuits to learn about any quality information that happens to come their way.

Even if they were to hear intellectually stimulating ideas, they would probably not remember it, or they might remember it superficially but never actually use that information for anything important. The third element missing from society, according to Faber, are the rights of citizens. Without.