In the novel the role of firefighters has changed drastically. Firefighters are called to burn books, as well as the houses that the books are being stored in, instead of extinguishing fires. �

A very appropriate quotation from the short story called The End of Time by an anonymous author which reflects a futuristic theme is when the ship Odysseus is filled with all of the Earths population and is bringing every one back to the Eden. “Thirty Two billion souls on a single ship, the Odysseus was on a quest for the Eden they had left so long ago.” This story obviously has a setting many years from now and has a futuristic theme, just like Fahrenheit 451.

��And so when houses were finally fire-proofed completely, all over the world, there was no longer need of firemen for the old purposes.” Captain Beatty explaining to Guy Montag why the roles of firemen have changed. (58). On the wall of the firehouse is posted a set of rules of how firemen are now supposed to go about their jobs. “Answer the alarm, start fire, burn everything, return to firehouse, stand alert for other alarms.” (35). “Kerosene.” “They pumped the cold fluid from the numbered 451 tanks strapped to their shoulders, they coated each book, they pumped rooms full of it.” (38). After responding to an alarm, the men are drenching the house of an old woman with kerosene because the house held books inside it. The actions of the firefighters prove how their roles have become destructive rather than constructive. The jobs of the firemen have changed because of the unhappiness of the people at that time in that particular society. The government determined that the thoughts that literature was putting into the heads of these people was causing them to think and to therefore be unhappy. Thus mental well being became the reason the government prohibited people from reading. This proves greatly the science fiction theme in the novel because it is quite imaginative for a society to break all ties with literature.

In Farenheit 451 the views of society about reading and the possession of books have drastically changed from today’s world. If it is reported that a person has books in th

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