Fahrenheit 451-Q. 8

Considering that Fahrenheit 451 was written in a futuristic tense, I don't think that there is any history that will match up with it, or at least not now. Many authors around the time that this book was written would write about a futuristic city or state of what life will be like fifty years from now. Some even wrote of a time much farther away than fifty years. Some of them wrote of a lifetime like thousands of years from now. When we are able to fly from place to place and not having to worry about paying for gas because we will use the sun as our infinant source of energy.

Since this takes place in the future we can't even know if during that time the people will be racist, sexist, or anything else. Guessing from previous events in history a long time ago I would guess that it would be a racist and sexist plus some other rules would be changed. Even though my educated guess was very accurate, you can't completely tell til the time comes and you can say for yourself with some good proof to back yourself up.

While answering most of the questions a lot of my answers have been the same of "we cant tell for sure until..." or "I cant relate it to historical events since it hasn't happened yet..." It was things like these that were hard to answer because it was ninety percent guessing and ten percent luck. Again, as i said before this is one of the main reasons I enjoy futuristic based settings and time periods, because you can keep on guessing about what it might be like but you will never truly know until that time comes and you can experience it for yourself and see if you actually were right and got some of our futuristic happenings correct. Although not very likely, that would be extremely cool if you were right about something.

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine, 1953. Print.