Fahrenheit 451 Fire Analysis

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The Salamander which could essentially survive the Hearth, the sand that would never fill the sieve and the fire that always burns bright, These three chapters are milestones to the reader and the protagonist as they both set on a journey through the near feature of reality created by Ray Bradbury and named Fahrenheit 451. A reality where books are contraband, thinking was odd and not heard off and you were only taught to do your job in life. The Salamander has been thrown in the fire with the rest of the books and all of the ideas of everyone, but will the Salamander crawl out burnt but alive.
The Hearth and the Salamander, which is the first chapter of the book. In the middle ages people thought that the Salamander was “Fireproof” because …show more content…
Montag briefly talks about his young life. ”Once as a child he had sat upon a yellow dune by the sea in the middle of the blue and hot summer day, trying to fill a sieve with sand, because some cruel cousin had said, "Fill this sieve and you'll get a dime!" `And the faster he poured, the faster it sifted through with a hot whispering. His hands were tired, the sand was boiling, the sieve was empty. Seated there in the midst of July, without a sound, he felt the tears move down his cheeks.”(Bradbury Pg.78). This is the literal definition of how even is he tried his most Montag could never fill the sieve with sand because the sand keeps going through the sieve faster than the sand is scooped on. The Symbolical term to this chapter is that Montag finally is told the true power of books and how interesting it is to read them. Montag feels enlightened by the knowledge and wants to spread it throughout the whole community of his. The wise one Faber tells him that there is really nothing he can due to breach the minds on the people who don’t think. With this impossible plan Montag creates but can never execute because he is caught essentially abusing his knowledge and reading to Mildred’s
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