Fahrenheit 451 Sacrifice Analysis

In Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 Montag wonders a lot thought out the novel on why the old lady loved these books so much she was willing to giver her life for them. It has often been said that what we value can be determined only by what we sacrifice. The old woman was astonished when the firemen enter her home…..”They crashed the front door and grabbed at the woman though she was not running…..she was only standing, weaving from side to side…her eyes fixed upon a nothingness in the wall....”(Bradbury 33) .Montag witnessed how the old woman was being treated by the firemen and policemen. …..”Where are they?”.... He slapped her face with amazing objectivity and repeated the question…”(Bradbury 33) Montag seemed to watch everything happen

Beatty felt as if the old woman wasn't out the house by the time he was done counting he was just going to leave … “Beatty raises his hand in which concealed the igniter… the fanatics always try to suicide; the patterns familiar said Beatty…”( Bradbury 36) Beatty was stuck on the fact that her type always tries to commit suicide so he gave her a count down but the old woman interrupts him and tells him to stop counting there's no need for it while Montag still trying to convince the old woman to leave with him but she tells him to leave to… “Montag placed his hand on the woman’s elbow.”You can come with me..” “No she said. “Thank you anyway”..(Bradbury 36)The old woman decided to stay in the house even though it was filled with kerosene everywhere and Beatty ready to set it on fire , she made a decision to commit by herself with her own match.. “You can stop counting,” she said. she opened the fingers of one hand slightly and in the palm of the hand was a single slender object… an ordinary Kitchen match…. The woman on the porched reached out with contempt to them all, and struck the kitchen match against the railing…”(Bradbury 37) the old woman obviously didn't believe in the law against book. She wanted to die with something she strongly valued and meant something to her and that was her