THE SIEVE AND THE SAND

"Shut up, shut up, shut up!" It was a plea, a cry so terrible that Montag found himself on his feet, the shocked inhabitants of the loud car staring, moving back from this man with the insane, gorged face, the gibbering, dry mouth, the flapping book in his fist. The people who had been sitting a moment before, tapping their feet to the rhythm of Denham's Dentifrice, Denham's Dandy Dental Detergent, Denham's Dentifrice Dentifrice Dentifrice, one two, one two three, one two, one two three. The people whose mouths had been faintly twitching the words Dentifrice Dentifrice Dentifrice. The train radio vomited upon Montag, in retalition, a great tonload of music made of tin, copper, silver, chromium, and brass. The people were pounded into submission; they did not run, there was no place to run; the great air train fell down its shaft in the earth. "

Ray Bradbury uses these details to describe to the readers how brainwashed these people are in the book. Everyone on that subway was brainwashed except Montag, who was trying to fight it, because he too was falling for the advertisement radio.

This books show that people can easily be brainwashed. A perfect example was the day that September eleventh occured. It seem like these mens who hijacked the planes just thought about if they hijacked and hit the twin towers, they will recieve a lot of money and fight for whatever caused they were fighting for. I felt where they were raised and taught made them become ignorant of other countries.

What Montag is doing, I feel that he is really helping people to think for themselves. Nobody should be able to take your thoughts aways because then people can't think for themselves like in the book, which only make bad things happen.