Reflective Post: Fahrenheit 451, Part Two ( The Sieve and the Sand)

I absolutely loved the second part of the book. It was where (for me) the story really started to begin and get exciting. I think the turning point was when we knew that Montag (the main character, a fireman whose job is to burn books along with the house) had been stealing books for a long time and when he decides to read them and go to Faber for help. My favorite scene was the conversation between Montag and his wife, Mildred and the three ladies. From that scene we could tell how ignorant and empty the ladies were but the surprise (and my favorite part) was when one of the ladies, Mrs. Phelps, burst into tears after Montag finished reading the poem "Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold.That  particular scene also showed us more of why the people stopped reading themselves as another lady, Mrs. Bowles, declared that the cause of Mrs. Phelps emotional meltdown was the evil, emotional messiness of poetry...