Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine instead of Fahrenheit 451... Bradbury’s sci-fi dystopia classic Fahrenheit 451 is a frequently assigned sci-fi dystopia novel alongside Orwell’s 1984. Named after the temperature at which paper burns, Fahrenheit 451 is about a world in which books are illegal and are set ablaze by “firemen” if discovered. The book follows the struggles of one of these firemen after he witnesses the suicide of a woman who would rather die than see her house full of illicit books burned. Bradbury was a renowned genre writer, using fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and horror elements in his work. While Fahrenheit 451 is a classic, its morals are a bit predictable. Obviously a society that chooses to burn books is going to be portrayed as being bad by a writer and the firefighter is going to gradually realize that what he does is morally wrong through his interactions with the free-spirited young Clarisse.What do you think? A more nuanced book from Bradbury is his novel Dandelion Wine, which sees him combining fantastic elements with memories of his own childhood summers growing up in the Midwest. The main character is a 12-year-old boy based on Bradbury who chronicles the daily routines of life in a small Illinois town in the summer of 1928. Subtle elements of magic and the fantastic complicate Bradbury’s descriptions of otherwise mundane goings-on. Here you won’t find the aliens or horrible monsters lurking in Bradbury’s other, more heavily genre work, but you will find what critics believe to be his most personal novel. Read more: wallstcheatsheet/entertainment/10-better-books-by-the-authors-you-read-in-school.html
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 12:17:26 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015