My first claim is, foreshadowing is a huge part in the story. The author uses it several times to show that the nursery might be somehow real. Which in the end, sad day, it turns out to be. One …show more content…
It is used in the story to show how upgraded future technology is, like, ‘the kids televised home’ ‘they did what?’ the reader might think. And this just makes the story more interesting. One example of figurative language is, “And he marched about the house turning off voice clocks, the stoves, the heaters, the shoe shiners, the shoe lacers, the body scrubbers and massagers, and every other machine he could put his hands onto.” (Bradbury, 13). This shows that allusion is the author’s way of adding humor in the story because normally we do these everyday tasks, but the kids in the future have automated machines that do it for them!
That is why Ray Bradbury focused on multiple craft moves to show hatred from the children. The author uses foreshadowing to show show the future consequences of the children’s hatred. The author uses imagery to describe the items that they are being spoiled with. And the author uses allusion to show how the kids might be spoiled in the future, like,