2. Are there are any current situations in the world that relate to the novel? What are they, and how do they relate? Does the novel shed any light on

I don't really think that people don't like to read books like they do in the novel but I can see that technology is definitely taking over quite a bit in the studying and reading areas. We just know that having a laptop is basically our textbook for everything. Even in the future all of the books could be read online, and that is not a bad thing but it still wouldn't be the same. Even in our school, we changed into a laptop school and that limits our study time with textbooks (not saying that laptops are bad at all!). If this technology vs. book issue got worse then we would just have to keep on persuading people that books are as important as technology. 

1. What is the major theme of this novel? Why is this theme important to a teenager living in 2009?

The major theme of this novel (fahrenheit 451) is that books are as important as anything in the world. Over the time as the future comes and goes many people will think that books are no longer needed in the world but that is completely wrong. Books and written documents have started from so long ago and it still is popular and important for us humans now. If we didn't have written documents then we wouldn't know about history and so on. So the theme is that you shouldn't forget something just because it is old. All old things still have its importance in one way or another. The importance this theme has to teenagers of 2009 is that technology is getting more advanced with every month coming, but no matter how much technology there is we shouldn't forget that we study from textbooks and read the the Bible and things like that.