He allows nothing to slip through his holes. The sand is symbolic of the tangible truth Montag seeks and the sieve of the human mind seeking truth. Truth is elusive and, the metaphor suggests, impossible to grasp in any permanent …show more content…
Montag is what figuratively burning bright ,he and the other insurgents who have realized what is wrong with this society.Montag is now arouse from censored society and is burning bright with the passion to preserve the knowledge he has obtained one book at a time, one chapter at a time, one verse at a time, he will do what it takes to perpetuate the knowledge from the most powerful books left in this society. "Somewhere the saving and putting away had to begin again and someone had to do the saving and the keeping, one way or another, in books, in records, in people 's heads, any way at all so long as it was safe, free from moths, silverfish, rust and dry-rot, nd men with matches." Montag decides that even if he is just one man he has to try and change the world he has been living.He wants to live in a world that has actual happiness and sorrow and joy and love- not just the simulated version of those feelings and experiences. And he is ready to do anything to awake the rest of the society and feed them the knowledge that he has