Fahrenheit 451 Part 2 PDF

Part 2: The Sieve and the Sand (pages 67-106) Guy and Mildred spend the afternoon reading. Guy reads out loud to Mildred, but she does not understand what he reads. To her, the books are just words that do not make any sense. She only wants to watch TV and thinks of the peop...

Part 2: The Sieve and the Sand (pages 67-106) Guy and Mildred spend the afternoon reading. Guy reads out loud to Mildred, but she does not understand what he reads. To her, the books are just words that do not make any sense. She only wants to watch TV and thinks of the people on TV as pgs. her “family”. The Mechanical Hound comes to the door and scratches , but then goes away. Guy 67-69 tries to understand why Clarisse was so different. He thinks it is because she cared about people other than herself. Clarisse was the exact opposite of Mildred. Bomber jets fly over their house every hour. Guy wonders (thinks) why no one ever talks about the bomber jets. pgs. He says that the U.S. has started and won 2 wars since 2022. He wonders why no one wants to talk about that. He 69-70 wonders if it is because everyone just watches TV and has fun all the time. He wonders if everyone has forgotten about the rest of the world. He heard that the U.S. was very rich and the rest of the world was very poor, but he doesn’t know if it’s true. He hopes the books will give him the answers, but he does not understand what he is reading. Guy decides that he must find a teacher. He thinks back to a year ago when he met an old English professor in the park. His name was Faber. Guy saw the old professor hide a book in his suit pocket. The professor pgs. 70-71 then tried to run away, but Guy told him to wait. They talked for over an hour. The old professor recited (said from memory) some poems to Guy. Guy listened and did not take his book away. Faber then gave Guy his address and phone number. Guy finds the professor’s number and calls him. Guy asks him how many copies of the Bible are left in the pgs. 71-72 country. Faber thinks that this is a trap. He does not want to talk to Guy. Guy asks him if he knows how many copies of Shakespeare and Plato are left. Faber says that there are none left and hangs up the phone. pgs. Guy goes back to his books and realizes that the book he took from the old woman may be the last copy of the Bible 72-73 in the country. Captain Beatty told Guy that he had 24 hours to hand in the book he took. Guy thinks he should give a different book to Captain Beatty, He worries that if Captain Beatty knows which book he took from the old lady, he will know that Guy has more books if Guy gives him a different book. Mildred cannot understand why Guy is putting her in danger. She asks him what is more important, her or the Bible. Guy decides make a copy of the Bible before he gives it to Captain Beatty tonight. Mildred tells him that some of her friends are coming over to watch TV with her. Guy leaves the house. Guy takes the subway to Faber’s house. On the subway, he thinks about a time when he was a child and pgs. his cousin was very mean to him. They were at the beach and his cousin told him that if Guy could fill 73-74 a sieve with sand, he would give Guy money. Guy tried and tried, but the sieve could not hold the sand. Guy cried and felt hopeless (without hope).  Guy looks down at the Bible, which is open on his lap. The Bible is the sand and Guy’s head is the sieve. He tries to memorize a verse (some lines) from the Bible, but like sand through the sieve, it does not stay in his head. The verse is about lilies in the field. pgs. Guy cannot hold onto the words because the subway radio 74-76 is playing a loud commercial for toothpaste (the name of the toothpaste is “Denham’s Dentifrice”). He gets very angry and starts to yell. He scares the people on the subway. They call for a security guard , but Guy gets off the train and runs. Guy goes to Faber’s door. Faber is scared of him until he sees the Bible under Guy’s arm. Faber lets him in. Guy tells Faber that he stole it. Guy lets Faber look at the Bible. Faber is fascinated by it (thinks it is amazing). He tells Guy that what pgs. is in the Bible is very different than what is on TV. On TV, Jesus wears fancy clothes and tries to sell things. Faber says 76-78 that he (Faber) is a coward (someone who is not brave ). He tells Guy that 40 years ago, when people decided that books were illegal (against the law), he didn’t say anything because no one else said anything. Faber asks why Guy is there. Guy tells him that he needs someone to listen to him and help him understand what he is pgs. feeling. He also wants Faber to teach him to understand what he reads. Guy thinks that what is missing in his life must 78-81 be in the books. Faber tells him that it is not the books he needs, but the things that are in the books. He says that these important messages could be on TV, in the movies, or with friends, but people don’t think they are important anymore. Faber says that 3 things are missing in this life since books became illegal: 1. Quality of (good) information: Faber says that books have pores (small holes in the skin where sweat and oil come out). This means that you can look closely at books, like you can at skin, and see more. Faber says, “They [books] show the pores in the face of life.” He says that people today do not want to see pores. They want everything to be perfect. They only want to be happy and have fun. He said it is like flowers trying to live on flowers. Flowers cannot live on flowers—they need dirt and rain. Just like flowers, people need dirt—and the dirt is all the things that are not nice in this world, but a part of life. 2. Leisure (free time) to digest (understand) it (#1: quality of information): People need time to think. It is very hard to think with the TV on all the time. When you read, you can stop and put the book down. 3. Freedom to act on (do something from) what we learn from #1 & #2. Guy wants to do something to change the world. Faber jokes that Guy should put books in the houses of firemen and then pgs. 81-84 burn them down. Guy likes the idea, but Faber says that the firemen are not the problem. People stopped reading books on their own before firemen started burning them. While they are talking, they can hear a bomber jet flying. Faber says that a war is starting and many people will die. Guy hopes that when this happens, they can bring books back.  Faber wants Guy to go home and leave him alone. He is tired and doesn’t want any problems. Guy wants his help, and so he starts to tear pages out of the Bible. Faber tells him to stop and asks him what he wants. Guy tells Faber that he wants Faber to teach him. Faber says that he knows someone with a printing press. Guy asks Faber for help with Captain Beatty that night. Guy is afraid that Captain pgs. 84-88 Beatty will talk him back to the way he was before. Faber shows Guy a special 2- way seashell radio he made. It looks like a green bullet. Guy will wear it when he talks to Captain Beatty. Faber can listen from home and tell Guy what to do. Guy gives Faber the Bible. He decides to give Captain Beatty a different book. Faber will go to his friend with the printing press tomorrow. Guy leaves. Guy goes to the bank and gets money to give to Faber tomorrow. He talks to Faber the whole time through the green pgs. 88-89 bullet. Faber asks if Guy wants him to read to him, and Guy says yes. Faber reads to him from the Book of Job from the Bible. Guy goes home. At 9:00, he is eating dinner when 2 of Mildred’s friends, Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Bowles, come over. The 3 women go right into the TV parlor (room with the pgs. parlor walls). Guy follows them and sees that they are watching very stupid things. He 89-95 turns off the TVs and the women are not happy. They only want to watch TV. He asks them about the war. Mrs. Phelps says the army called for her husband yesterday and he left for the war, but she is not worried. Mrs. Bowles says she has 2 children who only come home from school 3 days a month. She puts them in front of the TV and leaves them alone. Guy gets angry when the women talk about the presidential election. The women voted for the most handsome man, saying that the other man was fat and ugly. He feels the women are empty. He shows them a book of poems. Faber is listening through the green bullets. He tells Guy to stop. Mrs. Bowles says she is going home, but Mrs. Phelps says she wants to hear a poem, hoping that when he finishes, they can watch TV, Faber tells Guy that he will ruin everything if he reads. Mildred quickly thinks of a lie. She says that a fireman is allowed to bring home one book a year to show to his family how silly books are. She tells Guy to read a poem from the book. Faber tells him to do it too. Guy reads the poem “Dover Beach”, which is about war. Mrs. Phelps, who just told everyone how her husband left to fight in the war yesterday, starts to cry, When Mildred asks her what is wrong, Mrs. Phelps says that she does not know. Mrs. Bowles says that poems are evil. She is very mad at Guy for reading it. Faber tells Guy to put the book in pgs. the incinerator to burn, and he does. Mrs. Bowles says that she is going home and will never come back to their house. 96-98 Guy yells at Mrs. Bowles to go home and think about her empty life. Both women leave. Mildred goes into the bedroom and Guy hears her take sleeping pills. Guy discovers that Mildred has been burning his books in the incinerator, so he hides the rest of the books in the backyard. Guy goes to the fire station, and Faber talks to him on the way. Faber tells Guy that he is not alone. Faber will help him with Captain Beatty. When Guy gets to the fire station, the Mechanical Hound is not there. Guy gives his book to Captain Beatty. Captain Beatty throws it in the garbage without looking at it. He welcomes Guy back and tells him to pgs. sit down and play cards. Captain Beatty tries to confuse Guy. He wants Guy to understand that people should 99-106 burn books, not read them. Guy is so afraid that he cannot speak or move. Faber tells Guy that whatever Guy decides to do, it must be Guy’s decision. Faber will tell Guy what he thinks Guy should do, but Guy must choose for himself. Then the fire alarm rings. Captain Beatty looks at the report and says that it is a special case. Everyone gets in the fire truck. Captain Beatty drives, which he never does. The fire truck stops in front of Guy’s house.