What does "Sieve and the Sand" refer to?

1. In the scene where Mildred and Montag read books together, what are their separate reactions?
2. What is the effect throughout sections I and II, of the bombers flying over?
3. Who is Professor Faber?
4. Montag’s reaction to the commercial on the subway is a turning point in his life. How does he react and why?
5. What argument does Faber make for books?
6. What is the “small green metal object”?
7. What does the White Clown show lead you to believe about television programming in this society?
8. Why does Mrs Phelps cry when Montag reads “Dover Beach”?
9. What is Montag’s destination at the end of section II? Why?

ANSWERS

1. Montag is actually interested in reading them, and Mildred is scared of reading them

2. The effect is that they treat them as normal 

3. Professor Faber is an older man, who was an English professor

4. Montag reacts by getting annoyed by it and screaming for it to stop. He did this because for the first time he actually tried to concentrate on something

5. He says that 1.

6. It is a sort of mic where people can listen in from

7. It shows that things are really simple and stupid

8. Mrs Phelps cries because poetry is sad, 

9. At the end, Montag arrives at his own house because one of the ladies reported him for the books