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Ray Bradbury
When Ray Bradbury died in 2012, President Barack Obama released a statement that praised Bradbury's contribution to society. Obama specifically mentions that Bradbury had a "gift for...
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Ray Bradbury
In the short story "A Sound of Thunder," Ray Bradbury uses Eckels' careless personality and actions, as well as the narratives internal and external conflicts, to emphasize the theme that all...
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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
You have a great start to your research question! Let's try to hone this question a bit more and consider the things you want to research (and ultimately produce an answer for). Your listed...
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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
I would say this theme doesn't quite get at the heart of the story. The children are envious of Margot because she remembers having seen the sun and they don't: it rains all the time on Venus and...
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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
Ray Bradbury is a master of using figures of speech to make his writing more descriptive. His use of metaphors, personification, similes, etc. enhances the reader’s experiences with his stories...
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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
When the sun comes out on Venus every seven years, it is an event that everyone in the story looks forward to seeing. It constantly rains on Venus, and the citizens view the sun coming out as a...
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Ray Bradbury
The fact that the children breaking into the nursery goes unpunished and without interference is almost lost amid the flow of the plot, because it isn't really addressed. However, it establishes...
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Ray Bradbury
Setting is of great importance in "A Sound of Thunder" both because of the direct danger the setting poses to the characters, and to the ability of the setting to affect the flow of history. The...
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Ray Bradbury
Mildred is Montag's superficial, shallow wife who is obsessed with society's version of reality. She is regularly sitting in front of the parlor TVs and displays little emotion or enthusiasm...
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Ray Bradbury
The main theme of "All Summer in a Day" could certainly be described as jealousy when we look at the way the other children treated the main character, Margot. There are other themes connected to...
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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
There are many theories on time travel and if it is possible. The prevailing thought on the matter is that it is not possible to travel backward in time. We know through Einstein's special theory...
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Ray Bradbury
In "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury, the children's father, George Hadley, is the protagonist. He is the one who makes the life changing (ending) decision about the nursery. This allows the children to...
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Ray Bradbury
In "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury, the falling action begins when psychologist David McClean shows up to see the family off on their vacation to Iowa. He finds the children, Peter and Wendy, in the...
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Fahrenheit 451
Clarisse is honest because she speaks directly about the world and her place in it. The world in which Montag lives is predicated upon conformity. People blend in with one another. To speak with a...
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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
What service does the Time Safari business offer? Its guides use a time travel machine to take hunters back to past times in order to kill animals that they are unable to hunt, in the present...
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Ray Bradbury
The story actually has two or three settings, depending on how you view them. In its framework, the action is set in the future, presumably in the year 2055. Time travel is possible, but only by...
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Ray Bradbury
The year is 2055. Time Safari, Inc. is a business that uses a time machine to take people back to the past in order to hunt animals that are now extinct. It uses some preventive measures to insure...
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Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury’s 1954 short story “All Summer in a Day” portrays children behaving badly. When discussing a portrayal of “flaws in humanity,” however, it is a good idea to keep in mind...
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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...
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Fahrenheit 451
When Montag sees his own reflection in Clarisse's eyes, I think he is seeing himself through a different lens, or way of seeing things. Everything Montag perceives in his life in Bradbury's...
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Ray Bradbury
Going to the source might help here. When Ray Bradbury was asked in an interview as to his motivation in writing, he offered an insightful answer that can explain much: I had decided to be a...
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The Pedestrian
The response of the "police car"--the one and only police car since the election of 2052--was a simple and rather disparaging one. In this futuristic Bradbury short story, Mead is out walking at...
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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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There Will Come Soft Rains
Much like the walls which contain the images of the people and animals burned into the sides of buildings or bridges in Hiroshima after the atomic bomb in 1945--- in Ray Bradbury’s story “There...
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Fahrenheit 451
Emergency Hospital sends technicians instead of doctors to treat suicide attempts because they have a machine for pumping stomachs and doctors are not needed. In Fahrenheit 451, the people attempt...
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Fahrenheit 451
Beatty compares Montag to Icarus. The firemen already use the mythological creates of the salamander and the phoenix on their uniforms. When Montag tries to go rogue and read the books that...
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Fahrenheit 451
Chief Beatty visits Montag, who is ill from emotional confusion and guilt. Beatty, having seen this reaction in firemen before, takes the opportunity to explain some of the real history of the book...
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Fahrenheit 451
Clarisse's family are one of the vanishing breed of individuals in the future society; her parents and relatives still remember the pre-book-ban world, and are generally dissatisfied with the new...
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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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All Summer in a Day
I am going to make the presumption that the video in question was the 1982 version of the story. Certainly, both works represent the idea that the rain on the planet Venus is inescapable. There...
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Fahrenheit 451
I had to pare down the original question. In my mind, the strongest thematic application of burning books represents the governmental and social repression that Bradbury thrusts upon both Montag...
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Fahrenheit 451
The allusion to Plato is important both because he is a thinker the reader will recognize and because his writings focus on a just life and proper government. This contradicts the government in...
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Ray Bradbury
I think that part of Bradbury's genius is that he writes stories that might be set in a future or distant land, but the realities of bullying and intimidation are inescapable even in these...
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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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The Veldt
I think that Bradbury explores how children can become dehumanized and lose emotional connection to people through technology. It is not that the children are amoral as much as how their...
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All Summer in a Day
I would consider the initial descriptions that Bradbury offers after the rain has settled in to display the intense change in mood. When the rain starts, Bradbury's use of sensory details...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
One major theme in "There will Come Soft Rains" and many other Bradbury short stories is that technology will harm mankind. This would relate to the ideas and moods of late 1940s America because...
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All Summer in a Day
Margot is described as fundamentally different from the outset of the short story. It is because of this difference that she is able to be targeted so easily by the other students. Bradbury...
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Fahrenheit 451
While Ray Bradbury was a science-fiction author, a strong sense of anti-technological sentiment pervades many of his works. Fahrenheit 451, most often read as a criticism of censorship, was...
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Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury is an important author in science fiction. According to the eNotes site, he was one of the first authors to employ a cerebral, elevated writing style—rather than the more common...
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Ray Bradbury
You have several paths from which to choose. I think that you can go with a sad or despairing take on the loneliness that Margot feels. Perhaps a song by Suzanne Vega called "Luka." The...
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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
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 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...
