Fahrenheit 451: The Sieve and the Sand

This section of Fahrenheit 451 is when Montag starts reading the books, and tries to find the key or answer to help him our of his ignorance, but he doesn't know what the books are talking about, so he goes and finds a substitute, Faber, a man that he met in a park long time ago. He finds Faber, and Faber says that he's not going to find the reason for his unhappiness within the books themselves, but the meaning behind each one. This section, I would have to say to me is about the truth. By the title of the section "The Sieve and the Sand" is talking about how Montag's childhood memory, and he compares it to him reading the books, by how fast he reads the books, the more information will stay in his memory. The sand is talking about the authentic truth Montag is trying to search for, the sieve means the human mind seeking the truth (Source: Sparknotes.) The way I see it, I feel like it's trying to show us, that even in such a controlling society, the human mind will in some point in their life want to find some meaning of why do they do these things? And they would want to question, ask, and find the truth, what's really happening now, what is it like in the real world? Also, I think it shows, that no matter how distorted the society is, humans are still in some sort of way, "humans", and we still have a bit of emotions, or deepness in us, and it's because of the books and make us real. And not cardboard like.