Theme Of Sacrifice In Fahrenheit 451

In life there are many things that people are willing to give up in order to help others or maybe even yourself. The giving up of something of value or someone is identified as a sacrifice. Giving up possessions or even your life is extremely unfathomable, but in throughout Fahrenheit 451 Montag makes it seem extremely facile. When you find something that is of greater value to you than what you already have, then it would make it easier to sacrifice. Montag, in this novel, find the value of books and reading materials to be of more value than his life, in others words he sacrifices his life for books.
Over all these years of being a fireman, Montag has been sacrificing his house and everything in it. Montag reveals his collection of books that he has taken from houses over the years of burning them. The narrator says, “He kept moving his hand and dropping books, small ones, fairly large ones,...” Montag has so many book that he has hidden from Mildred (and also the rest of the world) and by revealing these books to her, he is sacrificing their marriage, his house and also his job. Before divulging all of these books to Mildred,
He believes that if he can’t live a life full of knowledge and books, then life is not worth living. The value of books is greater than the value of life to him. Throughout the whole novel, the sacrifice of life and possession is exemplified by many characters, including Montag and Faber. Near the end Montag runs into some other people who did the same as Montag, ran away from the city because their life was better off sharing their knowledge of books along the way. At the end, a bomb blows up the city and everything is destroyed. They go back to the city to start a new life and help others that survived to realize the value of books. After all, values are only as substantial as the sacrifices required to keep