To begin, Ray Bradbury was important to American literature for his fantasy short stories. From the book I read, Fahrenheit 451, I got the impression that Bradbury has a theme of writing stories that have non-fiction based events occurring. However, everything that happens is overall fictional or unrealistic. For example, in my book, a guy named Guy Montag was a fireman who burned books along with every other citizen who doesn’t necessarily live by the “rules.” Although, there are many parts of the book that I find unrealistic, it’s what Bradbury does to continuously keep the reader engaged and wondering what is happening that I think gave him such an importance to American literature.
Ray Bradbury graduated in the time of the great depression, that impacted his work because he couldn’t afford many things, a major part of that was college. Ray didn’t let that stop him though, he knew what he wanted, and what he wanted was to write books. He then turned to libraries, he loved spending all of his time in libraries, reading and writing. He published his first books in the early 1950’s and wrote his most famous book, …show more content…
By just age 17, Ray was a member of the los Angeles science fiction league. That’s when he published his first science fiction fun magazine. He then published his first short story soon after when he was 20 years old. What influenced ray Bradbury to write a book was when he was walking down the streets of LA with a friend, a police man stopped him and asked what he was doing and for identification when he had done nothing wrong. He felt that was very unnecessary, he later wrote a fiction book called “the pedestrian” that had ideas from his time of being stopped by the cops. However, he changed parts of it and wrote it as a fiction book with parts of it being fictional from that specific
Ray Bradbury graduated in the time of the great depression, that impacted his work because he couldn’t afford many things, a major part of that was college. Ray didn’t let that stop him though, he knew what he wanted, and what he wanted was to write books. He then turned to libraries, he loved spending all of his time in libraries, reading and writing. He published his first books in the early 1950’s and wrote his most famous book, …show more content…
By just age 17, Ray was a member of the los Angeles science fiction league. That’s when he published his first science fiction fun magazine. He then published his first short story soon after when he was 20 years old. What influenced ray Bradbury to write a book was when he was walking down the streets of LA with a friend, a police man stopped him and asked what he was doing and for identification when he had done nothing wrong. He felt that was very unnecessary, he later wrote a fiction book called “the pedestrian” that had ideas from his time of being stopped by the cops. However, he changed parts of it and wrote it as a fiction book with parts of it being fictional from that specific