Dark They Were And Golden Eyed Rhetorical Analysis

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The “change is inevitable”. Change is a constant. — Benjamin Disraeli. Oftentimes in our lives we face new situations and challenges, but as humans, we are naturally opposed to change. The “Dark they were and Golden Eyed” highlights just how unavoidable these changes we face are. This story features a community confined to a strange place, forced to adapt in a manner they never could have imagined. This story spotlights an everyday struggle, a fear of change, in an extreme environment, all while using literary devices such as foreshadowing, repetition, and personification to further convey the message. In “Dark They Were and Golden Eyed” Ray Bradbury conveys through a trapped family forced to change how easy it is to become consumed by fear in an unknown place, and how adapting to new environments is unavoidable. Through his emphasis on the wind, Bradbury foreshadows how easily a person’s identity can …show more content…

When Harry bittering learns that the humans are stranded on Mars, he becomes very distressed as he realizes what this new situation might entail. He thinks “Earth people, left to the strangeness of Mars, the cinnamon dusts and wine airs, to be baked like gingerbread shapes in Martian summers, put into storage by Martian winters. What would happen to him, the others? This was the moment Mars had waited for. Now it would eat them.” (2). Bradbury continues the narrative spread through the story that only Martians belong on Mars with his repetition of these words. “This was the moment Mars had waited for. Now it would eat them” emphasizes the danger of being an intruder in a strange place. The repetition of the word Martian furthermore hints at the change that will happen to the Bittering family later in the story. Bradbury uses repetition to imply that if you do not fit in your surroundings, they will change you until you

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