Fahrenheit 451- "The Sieve and the Sand"

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  1. 3. This is the animal that is used as a name for the fire engine, a creature that is supposedly fireproof as it was once seen crawling through a fire.
  2. 8. This is what Faber says you need in order to digest the information from books.
  3. 9. This is the first thing that Faber says Montag can find in books.
  4. 10. This object is symbolic of Montag's unprepared mind that is struggle to hold the information he is reading.
  5. 14. Faber jokingly proposes to _______ ________ in firemen's homes to "sow suspicion" in them with the public and Montag thinks they should do it.
  6. 16. The jingle for Denham's _______________ keeps interrupting Montag's thought process as he is trying to read and understand the Bible on the subway to the professor's home.
  7. 17. Montag makes Mrs. Phelps do this by reading her a poem.
  8. 18. The home that the fireman are going to burn at the end of the chapter belongs to this character.
Down
  1. 1. This type of material represents the knowledge that Montag is struggling to gain from reading at the beginning of the chapter.
  2. 2. The "___________" in her parlor is Mildred's main concern at the beginning of the chapter when Guy is reading through the books he had hidden away.
  3. 4. This character says that firemen are allowed to bring home and read a book to their family to show the idiocy of reading books.
  4. 5. This is what Montag starts doing to the pages of the book he takes to Faber's home.
  5. 6. The retired professor that Montag seeks out to try to help him understand what he is reading.
  6. 7. Fill in the blanks in the quote: "The night I kicked the _______ ___________ in the dark, like kicking a buried mine."
  7. 11. The book that Montag takes with him to the professor's home.
  8. 12. Montag reads this to Mildred and her friends in a moment of wild stupidity.
  9. 13. Beatty keeps ____________ books and essays to try to mess with Montag's head at the firehouse.
  10. 14. Montag keeps nervously focusing on these when he is at the firehouse, like they will give away his guilt.
  11. 15. The ability to take ___________ is the third thing that is a good thing that comes from the first two important things about books.