Dandelion Wine Symbolism

In the novel Dandelion Wine the author Ray Bradbury writes his book using literary devices. Frederick H. Gundry, Orson Scott Card, and Sarah-Warner J. Pell are critics who have written reviews about his many novels. He writes so much about each style, that the critics do not repeat each other. Bradbury uses lots of imagery to captivate the reader of the book, symbolism to help the reader relate to an event that has happened, and optimism for a younger audience. Bradbury uses lots of imagery in his novels to connect with the readers. Frederick H. Guidry says that Ray uses “flashes of imagery, and it invites a serious approach and arouses an eager expectancy of fresh insight into the human condition.” An example of when Bradbury uses this

Frederick H. Gundry says, “His modern parables do not always convey clear-cut meanings, their imaginative approach, suggestive overtones of significance, keep the reader hunting for a message or moral.” Bradbury uses the dandelion as a symbol of life. Grandpa likes to mow the lawn and he loves the dandelions, grandpa thinks they represent the cycle of life, he cuts them down at the end of each month in the summer and then they grow right back. He continues to say, “The temptation is strong to search for hidden meanings.” He shows how dandelion wine is a symbol for rituals and memories, “‘July fourth and all that, dandelion wine making and junk like bringing out the porch swing, huh?’ ‘Says here, I ate the first Eskimo Pie of the summer season June first, 1928.’” There are tons of bottles of wine. They make one for all of the days of summer. Dandelion wine represents the memories of events that have gone by, and every time someone drinks it, it’s like remembering that exact day. Given these points Bradburry shows the significance of memories and rituals, allows readers to find out the hidden messages through symbolism. However, another critic named Orson Scott Card has a different take on how Bradbury shows symbolism. He says, “He finds inexpressible things you most deeply know, and from then on name of the name of that thing will be in his story.” Machines are a big part in Bradbury's

Orson Scott Card says, “Bradbury will evitable to you. In short, if you will let him, Bradbury will give you a much better childhood than you ever had. He will name all your nameless fears and bring them home and make you like them.” Bradbury writes about Dougs fear of dying and how people try to help him get over it. He writes, “Douglas, inside again, like a fall of snow in his bed, turned his head and opened his eyes to see the freshly falling sky and slowly slowly twitch his fingers.” he changed from not doing good in a bad situation to doing good and actually waking up. This shows that the fears that are forced on you will eventually go away once you are forced to deal with them. Once dealt with then there's nothing to be scared of anymore. Sarah-Warner J. Pell has a different view on Rays optimism. She says, “Bradbury frequently uses boyband games in his imagery, for instance, the entire planet Earth became a muddy baseball tossed away.” He uses this to appeal to a younger audience of readers. Ray says, “A trolley burdened with brown and alien and beautiful people, and the sound of other people running and calling out with triumph as they leaped up and swung aboard and vanished around a corner on the shrieking rails and were borne away in the sun blazed distance to leave only the sound of tortillas frying on the market stoves.” He compared the shrieking to tortillas frying because younger readers know what that’s like if they don’t