Throughout the entire first part of the book many powerful scenes took place, it was difficult to narrow it down to just one. But, I ultimately decided the most powerful scene, is undoubtedly, when the women choses to burn with her books, her life has been condemned as all that she loves and believes in is about to be destroyed when the firemen arrive. The old woman feels that if she lives after her books are burned, she will have betrayed all those whose works she has embraced. Therefore, she chooses to die along with the truths and philosophies she embraces. She held out a match inside the kerosene drenched home and after firemen ran out she lit the match, burning the house, along with all her books, down with her. Montag was traumatized