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Ray Bradbury
In Ray Bradbury’s “The Flying Machine,” the underlying themes revolve around the notion of technological advancement in society. Specifically, the story deals with the notion that unchecked...
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Ray Bradbury
The attempted eradication of the "other" is explored in two ways in Bradbury's The Visitor. First, people, all male, who have blood rust in the lungs, a communicable disease, are quarantined on...
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Ray Bradbury
Foreshadowing is a literary term used extensively by writers that introduces verbal and/or dramatic hints about what will occur later in the story. In science fiction master Ray Bradbury's "A Sound...
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Ray Bradbury
The Mechanical Hound is an important part of the story, and therefore, we can find lots of quotations about it in the book. Firstly, we can get an idea of its physical characteristics and...
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Ray Bradbury
Some examples of figurative language from the story are as follows. nothing’s too good for our children This phrase actually means that all things are good enough for the children. Children are...
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Ray Bradbury
Thematic connections are connections in meaning between the poem and the short story. What common message do both convey? This message is summed in the lines of the poem below: And not one will...
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Ray Bradbury
The mood of a story is the feeling a reader gets as they read it. An author creates the mood of a story by including certain details, selecting words with powerful or interesting connotations, and...
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Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury, a prolific writer of science fiction and other genres, is really known for his use of descriptive language in writing. His use of figures of speech like similes, metaphors, etc....
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Ray Bradbury
This would be better suited to the question board, since you’re looking for a specific answer. However, they began the wall building "competition" because each felt the other’s wall was more...
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Ray Bradbury
This short story places us in a terrifying future world where life is so controlled and based on fear and surveillance that nobody leaves there house after a certain time at night. The only man who...
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Ray Bradbury
Bradbury's motivation to write was driven by his imagination. As a child, Bradbury was an avid reader, devouring works by Wolfe and Hemingway. This helped to drive his fascination towards the...
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Ray Bradbury
In this story, Eckels has gone to the Time Safari company. He wants to take one of their trips, which involves going back in their time machine and shooting a dinosaur. He is told by the man at...
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Ray Bradbury
Although Bradbury does not specifically state what happens to Eckles, we can assume that Eckles is killed by Travis. Discovering that Eckles has indeed brought back something from the future and...
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Ray Bradbury
The voice from the police car says this because Leonard Mead has said that he is a writer. The car says this as if it is talking to itself. In my opinion, this is a commentary by Bradbury on what...
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Ray Bradbury
Eckels is the hunter who panics and causes the permanent alteration of history in Ray Bradbury's science fiction short story "A Sound of Thunder." Going back in time to witness the hunt of the...
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Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury's short story, "All Summer in a Day," has been a long-time staple in American middle and high school classrooms since shortly after it was published in 1954. Bradbury tells the story...
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Ray Bradbury
Well, when we use the word "diction" we actually refer to something as simple as the choice of words that an author used and the kind of effect that those words create. Therefore, if you are after...
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Ray Bradbury
In this story, set on Venus, the sun only comes out for a short time once every seven years. Otherwise, it rains. The story argues for the value of tolerance by showing the effects of intolerance....
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Ray Bradbury
“The Pedestrian” describes a world where everyone stays in their houses and watches television, never interacting with the world. The resolution is when Leonard Mead is arrested for walking at...
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Ray Bradbury
The most re-published short story in science fiction history, Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" deals with the idea of time travel and how subtle changes in the past can drastically affect the...
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Ray Bradbury
Each question must be listed separately. I can answer only one. Also, please note that this is my opinion, as your answer should be when you address it. With opinions, there are generally no wrong...
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Ray Bradbury
I think that, on balance, I would call Leonard Mead a rebel. You could argue that he is not a rebel because he's not exactly trying to influence anyone else. All he does is go for walks alone....
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Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury employs the literary technique of situational irony in his sci-fi short story "A Little Journey." In the story, an eighty-five-year-old woman named Mrs. Amelia Bellowes reads an...
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Ray Bradbury
In Ray Bradbury's short story "Embroidery," women work frantically to sew back the world that surrounds them before it ends in an apocalyptic manner: Each woman looked to her own hands as if...
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Ray Bradbury
When we think of point of view in terms of literature there are three different types that are used mainly by authors: first person, the omniscient point of view (all-knowing) and third person...
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Ray Bradbury
George and Lydia are anxious in general over the amount of time their children, Wendy and Peter, are spending in the nursery, watching scenes of the African veldt on their giant viewscreens....
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Ray Bradbury
This excellent short story explores the ethics and dangers of time travel by offering us as spectators the ultimate safari showdown between man and dinosaurs. Clearly, therefore, the external...
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Ray Bradbury
I think that it is clear that Ray Bradbury would not and did not advocate much of where the internet and social media leads people. He would support the idea that the over-reliance on such...
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Ray Bradbury
While there are several main themes portrayed in this sci-fi short story, perhaps the most central is the idea that humans can be so naive that we even fool ourselves, yet this isn’t always a bad...
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Ray Bradbury
In "The Flying Machine," published by Ray Bradbury in 1953, the literal danger the Emperor perceives in the creation of the flying machine is that this innovation will cause people to move away...
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Ray Bradbury
First, it is interesting to note that Ray Bradbury enjoyed an... ...incredibly prolific career that spans countless styles, formats, and genres... But what is most interesting with regard to this...
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Ray Bradbury
Montag and his team are called into an older lady's house, to burn it and remove the old lady. She had a house filled with books; her neighbor had turned her in. Most people have been removed...
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Ray Bradbury
Literary critic David Mogen identifies a trope of Ray Bradbury's work as "joyous absorption in the experience of living." Mogen and Gary K. Wolfe, another critic, observe that Bradbury's fiction...
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Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury no doubt placed the setting for his 1954 short story “All Summer in a Day” on Venus because of the centrality of atmospheric conditions to his story of a nine-year-old girl and her...
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Ray Bradbury
To me, the theme of this story is that TV (and I think technology in general) can destroy a society. I think that this is a fairly typical Bradbury theme and can also be seen in stories like "The...
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Ray Bradbury
While many of Bradbury's short stories discuss the negative consequences of technology upon American families, the three stories that you have read possess a different set of similarities. Below...
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Ray Bradbury
"The Highway" comes from a collection called The Illustrated Man, in which the narrator sees another man's tattoos move and tell each of the stories. A theme which comes up in many of the stories...
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Ray Bradbury
If you reconsider the basic outlines of the plot, I think you will start to detect the theme of self-destructive obsession and fear of mortality that runs through Bradbury's story "The Skeleton."...
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Ray Bradbury
This short story has a dual theme and is a most interesting study of a much anticipated event during the time in which the story is set. The time period of the setting is integral to...
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Ray Bradbury
The sun serves as symbols for a variety of things in Ray Bradbury's short story, "All Summer in a Day." For Margot, it is a reminder of her happier days on Earth, before her family has relocated to...
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Ray Bradbury
"A Sound of Thunder" Bradbury employs metaphor, simile, parallelism, irony, and paradox. In the exposition of the story Bradbury writes in metaphor and simile, using parallelism to enhance the...
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Ray Bradbury
You may be interested in the quotes below. "We burned a thousand books. We burned a woman. "Well?" The parlor was exploding with sound. "We burned copies of Dante and Swift and Marcus Aurelius."...
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Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury's science fiction short story "A Sound of Thunder" has a plot driven by the actions of the characters: Eckels This character certainly is the catalyst to the problem of the plot of...
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Ray Bradbury
The quote "There are times...when one must lose a little beauty if one is to keep what little beauty one already has," from "The Flying Machine," by Ray Bradbury, is a paradoxical statement. The...
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Ray Bradbury
The author’s purpose is to remind people that small actions have large consequences. The author’s purpose is the reason for writing a story. Usually we first determine if an author intends to...
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Ray Bradbury
The quote you refer to is from Ray Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451. This part of the story is a turning point for Guy Montag, one of the firemen who is responsible for burning houses where books...
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Ray Bradbury
We're not really told why Kwan-Si first changes their walls into the shape of a pig, but the messenger bringing the news seems to think that by doing so, they have made themselves the more powerful...
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Ray Bradbury
The opening paragraphs of Bradbury's short story give a good sampling of the kinds of literary devices that are represented in "A Sound of Thunder." He opens right at the start with sensory...
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Ray Bradbury
The irony in "The Veldt" is that the family has automated factors added to their house in order to simplify and ease their lives so that they have more time to spend with each other. However,...
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Ray Bradbury
Remember, imagery is when words and phrases are used that are meant to appeal to your five senses in order to help you further experience a story. So, any time you see something in "A Sound of...
