Setting+Comparison

You will be comparing the futuristic world created by Ray Bradbury in his novel, //Fahrenheit 451// to the world you live in today. You are required to describe at least 30 aspects of both worlds - yours and Bradbury's. **This is due with the completion of the novel.**


 * **Your World, 2011** || **Montag's World, Future** ||
 * Firefighters put out fires || Firefighters cause fires (Zack) ||
 * People plan and create ideas || People live only for entertainment and are "in the now" (Zack) ||
 * Firemen use real dogs || Fireman have 8-legged electronic hounds (Zack) ||
 * Murder is illegal || Murder is an everyday normal, and politically accepted event (Zack) ||
 * TV's that are 72' are extremly large || TV's cover the walls (Zack) ||
 * People have front porches and relax || People have no talking time and are always distracted (Zack) ||
 * Speed limit is under 70 mph. || Cars drive around 100 mph. (sarah) ||
 * Kindergarten age is 5/6 || Kindergarten age is much lower. (sarah) ||
 * Gas cars || Racer jet cars (ashley) ||
 * Fall asleep naturally || Take sleeping tablets (ashley) ||
 * Parents see their kids every day || Parents see their kids 3 times a month (ashley) ||
 * Natural birth || C-section (ashley) ||
 * Teenagers respect one another || Kids and teenagers kill each other (ashley) ||
 * Medical machines need monitoring || Medical machines don't need monitoring (yiyi) ||
 * Wives care about husbands || Wives don't really care about husbands if they die in war (yiyi) ||
 * Criminals die through execution || Criminals die through lethal injection by the Hound (yiyi) ||
 * Crime is taken seriously || Government will take an innocent citizen as a scapegoat (yiyi) ||
 * Suicide isn't really a common thing || People commit suicide everyday (yiyi) ||
 * USA tries not to cause wars || USA causes a lot of wars (ashley) ||
 * Kids are friends || Kids kill eachother (ashley) ||
 * Mechanical animals do not exist || Mechanical animals DO exist (ashley) ||
 * Seashell's haven't been invented || Everyone has one (yiyi) ||
 * People watch normal TV || People watch pointless, violent, nasty tv shows (yiyi) ||
 * TV's are not always on || TV's are constantly on (sarah) ||
 * People hire parlour-sitters || People sometimes hire house-sitters (sarah) ||
 * When people get together, they talk to each other || People watch TV together (sarah) ||
 * Police admit to losing a criminal || Police accuse innocent people to cover up their mistakes (sarah) ||
 * People watch TV for a reason || People almost never have a reason to watch TV (sarah) ||
 * Parents love their kids || All parents do for their kids is put them in the parlor (sarah) ||
 * Police use multiple means of tracking a criminal || Police use only scent to find a criminal (sarah) ||