Explain the following quote about Montag’s flashback to when he was a child and his cousin tricked him into filling a sieve with sand for 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.”

Montag remembers the memory of trying to fill a sieve with sand because it was a hopeless task, just as memorizing the books seems to be. A sieve is a bowl with tiny holes. It is used to sort larger sediment from smaller, less valuable pieces.

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