Fahrenheit 451 is set in a futuristic world where things are completely different from the typically modern world that we know now, sort of, and especially different from the world that Bradbury knew in 1953, although Bradbury could see where the world was heading in an almost prophetic sense. But first, let us talk about the foreshadowing used in the novel, Fahrenheit 451. We see foreshadowing throughout the novel but there are some especially obvious times of foreshadowing. We know from the novel that Montag is a character who is employed by the government as a fire fighter. In the futuristic world we see that firefighters are not responsible for putting out fires in homes and saving people but they are responsible for burning books because