Personification And Selfcraft In The Veldd By Ray Bradbury

In The Veldt created by the one and only Ray Bradbury, he uses multiple examples of author’s craft such as personification and tone or mood. These crafts were written into the story to help prove and point out the theme of influencing children with so much technology early on can not only stir up violent thoughts but, can also cause breaks between friend and family relationships. The first author’s craft that can be prove this theme to be true is personification. One example is, “the walls began to purr and recede.” Although walls can not do this, Ray Bradbury uses it in his story to show how much technology the family living in the Happy Home have given to their children. They created a nursery that is all technology and can only work with the children’s imagination. This starts to cause brain damage to them when they …show more content…
In his other story All Summer in a Day, Bradbury uses crafts like similes, metaphors, and repetition. He uses these crafts to help prove and support other theme or themes. One theme contained in All Summer in a Day is jealousy causes bad decisions to be made. One simile craft presented in the story happens when the main girl character, Margot, tries to explain her remembrance of the sun. She expresses it as a large lemon or like a coin large enough to buy the whole world with. Using different crafts in different stories can help support different themes. Ray Bradbury selects the best crafts for his stories to allow his readers to create a theme out of the stories. Many similes or metaphors can be found in All Summer in a Day but, not in The Veldt. Just like many personification or tone or mood examples can be found in The Veldt but, not All Summer in a Day. Each story contains different crafts to help support each theme. This is why many of the same crafts Bradbury uses in The Veldt can be found multiple times but, not multiple times in his other