How is Montag affected by the event that occurred at 11 North Elm, and the woman to whom it occurred? "Fahrenheit 451"

The encounter with the old woman is, for Montag, a pivotal one for several reasons. His own awakening conscience and awareness are wakened even further as he watches the martyrdom of the old woman, an awakening symbolized or perhaps manifested in his taking of one of her books, revealed in the following section to be The Bible, a work that, over the centuries, has become associated with all kinds of spiritual awakenings. Then, in terms of the old woman specifically, there is his encounter with the courage to love and passion to protect books of all sorts, a passion he discovers in himself and in others, particularly Professor Faber but also in the group of learned men he encounters after his escape from the city. Finally, there are the words the woman speaks, which Beatty says were originally spoken by a man burned at the stake in the mid-1500s. The words were spoken by a British Protestant Archbishop named Ridleywhile being burned at the stake for refusing to convert to the Roman Catholic faith. In other words, he was a martyr to his faith, in the same way as the old woman becomes a martyr for what she believes and Montag himself, in a way, becomes a martyr for what he believes - that is, his identity comes to an end, but not his life.