Ray Bradbury's Three Craft Travels

Ray Bradbury was a successful author who is famous for his descriptive and dystopian stories. Bradbury used a handful of craft moves that made his books intriguing. One of his well-known stories, the veldt had many craft moves sprinkled in the writing. Such as comparison, alliteration, repetition, personification, and much more. In this essay, I'm going to focus on three craft moves that Bradbury used that made his story the veldt come alive.

In the beginning, the author uses foreshadowing to add dramatic tension. This type of craft move makes the reader anticipate what might happen next. “Two screams. Two people screaming from downstairs. And then a roar of lions… ‘those screams they sound familiar.’” The reader can predict that the screams were Lydia and Geros screams from the future. Most of the time, when people scream they are scared that's why I believe that the screams could symbolize the fear that they felt that night. Maybe Ray Bradbury was trying to that if you feel fearful about something you should trust your instincts. …show more content…
“The hot straw smell of lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden water hole, the great rusty smell of animals, the smell of dust like a red paprika in the hot air. And now the sounds a thump of distant antelope feet on grassy sod, the papery rustling of the vultures...” This craft move had a large impact on the story because not only does he describe what the veldt looked like, but what it smelt, sounded, and felt like. While reading this I noticed that there were a lot of commas, this gave me the sense that George and Lydia were in a way overwhelmed or baffled by what they were seeing. They saw a lot of creatures and smelled a lot of orders and that's why I think that Bradbury described the veldt the way he did. Maybe he was trying to show that Lydia and George were