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Fahrenheit 451 Theme Analysis
Fahrenheit 451: The Sieve and the Sand
Pages 100-110 Plot * Montag reads Dovers’s beach to Mildred and her friends after interrupting their TV time even though Faber insisted he not do it * He makes Mrs. Phelps cry because she feels pain when listening to the poem
* Mrs. Bowles gets angry at him and tells him that he’s evil and mean “ ‘silly words silly words, silly awful words’ said Mrs. Bowles ‘Why do people want to hurt people? Not enough hurt in the world, you got to tease people with stuff like that!” (pg. 101) and “ your nasty, Mr. Montag, your nasty” (pg.101) * Montag loses control and brings awareness to death, and lost love and ignorance. He kicks Mildred’s friends out of the house
* Mon tag takes the ear chip out of his ear to avoid getting a lecture from Faber
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His fingers were like ferrets that had done some evil and now never rested always stirred…” (page 105)
* Beatty still knows that there’s something wrong with Montag so he tries to confuse him and trap him into revealing

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