How Is Personification Used In Ray Bradbury

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As the reader may know, Bradbury uses many literary tools to support the theme of his stories, and to make his stories more descriptive. Bradbury also aims to keep the reader’s attention. One could also infer that Bradbury emphasizes the topic of his stories. Even though, he doesn’t blantly tell the reader where he’s going with his stories, he uses another way. Ray Bradbury uses several tools to create meaning in his stories, including personification, symbolism, imagery, and foreshadowing.

One tool Bradbury uses the most is, Personification: Giving human characteristics to non-living things or ideas. The reader can find that tool in any of Bradbury’s stories. Particularly, the house in, (“The Veldt”) is personified. The family’s house consists …show more content…

“But no doors slammed, no carpets took the soft tread of rubber heels. It was raining outside. The weather box on the front door sang quietly: "Rain, rain, go away; rubbers, raincoats for today…" And the rain tapped on the empty house, echoing.” (Bradbury 01). This gives the reader a fore brooding feeling that, something bad could have occurred. The people whom live in the house aren’t there to answer to the mechanical voice. Lastly, for Bradbury's, ("The pedestrian"), a use of foreshadowing would be on the first page. “He stumbled over a particularly uneven section of sidewalk. The cement was vanishing under flowers and grass. In ten years of walking by night or day, for thousands of miles, he had never met another person walking, not one in all that time" (Bradbury 01). We grasp that, the character has been walking daily for 10 years without ever meeting anyone else walking. We also grasp that the nature of the society is in ruins and not maintained. This makes the reader question, what happened? it would give us the feeling of

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