In Part Two of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, “The Sieve and the Sand”, Faber discusses some of the faults of the society he and Montag lived in. He specifically identifies three missing things that were taken away when books were. The missing things were the quality of information (some books with more quality than others), the time to properly digest and understand it, and the freedom to act according to what is learned from the books read and from the first two missing things. The first, quality of information, refers to what Faber calls the liveliness found in a book, its pores and texture. “ ‘To me [quality] means texture. This book has pores. It has features. This book can go under the microscope. You’d find life under the glass, streaming
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But Faber questioned how much time he truly had to think, when they are constantly bombarded by outside forces like commercials on the train or the “family” in your walls. What comes from your walls or the speakers in the train also serve a purpose to persuade you, brainwash you into believing that they are all that matters, that they are real. They give you no time or option to think otherwise. It is all you know to believe. “ ‘[The televisor] tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes on you so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn’t time to protest, “What nonsense!” ’ …show more content…
They show the pores in the face of life.’”. In other words, details are presumably the dangerous aspects of books. They are what unfurls the facets and even secrecies of how a society works. The society featured in the book wishes for its residents to be comfortable with their circumstances, and to not be curious as to the “trivialities” of their origins or the science behind how things work. However all of this can be found in the text that the society finds to be such an abomination and is, therefore, outlawed in order for people to remain ignorant. In our present society, there is an entirely different reason for the negligence of books in this
But Faber questioned how much time he truly had to think, when they are constantly bombarded by outside forces like commercials on the train or the “family” in your walls. What comes from your walls or the speakers in the train also serve a purpose to persuade you, brainwash you into believing that they are all that matters, that they are real. They give you no time or option to think otherwise. It is all you know to believe. “ ‘[The televisor] tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes on you so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn’t time to protest, “What nonsense!” ’ …show more content…
They show the pores in the face of life.’”. In other words, details are presumably the dangerous aspects of books. They are what unfurls the facets and even secrecies of how a society works. The society featured in the book wishes for its residents to be comfortable with their circumstances, and to not be curious as to the “trivialities” of their origins or the science behind how things work. However all of this can be found in the text that the society finds to be such an abomination and is, therefore, outlawed in order for people to remain ignorant. In our present society, there is an entirely different reason for the negligence of books in this