Montag recalls two childhood events throughout "Part Two: The Sieve and the Sand." At the beginning of "Part Two: The Sieve and the Sand," Montag attempts to read and memorize Bible verses while he rides on the subway. Montag is continually distracted by an advertisement for Denham's Dentifrice that is blaring through the loudspeakers on the train. Montag compared his failure to retain and remember the Bible verses, to a time when he was young and went to the beach with his cousin. His cousin bet him a dime that he could not fill a sieve with sand. The faster Montag poured the sand into the sieve, the faster it sifted through. Montag's mind is similar to the sieve, and the information he is attempting to retain is essentially the sand in the analogy.
Another childhood memory that Montag recalls takes place while he is staring at Mildred's friends and listening to them discuss their superficial, immoral lives. Montag says that the women's faces reminded him of the faces of the saints that he looked at as a child when he went to church. He says that the saint's faces meant nothing to him, as he tried to get a sense of what religion was and understand its meaning. Montag felt numb as he looked at the porcelain statues as a child, similar to how he views his parlor with Mildred's friends talking about nonsense.
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