First and foremost, allusion can be a good rhetorical device that can provide a solid argument. Ray Bradbury uses allusions to expound and justify a belief and a point of view of a certain character or theme. “And on either side of the river was there a tree of life, which bare twelve manners of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations” (Bradbury 158). This quote is from the Book of Revelations chapter 22 verse 2 in the Bible. It was God’s message that there will be a real day where the world would end. Just like how the city in the book that once stood was destroyed in the end. But there is also the “tree of life” that signifies the belief in the afterlife--that there is a future where there is only peace and healing for nations after a war. This is just like what the Book People are trying to accomplish: to rebuild their society. Another example is the phoenix of God burning itself in flames until it turned it into ashes, and then one day appear differently: beautiful and anew (Bradbury 162). This alludes from the Book of Ecclesiastes
First and foremost, allusion can be a good rhetorical device that can provide a solid argument. Ray Bradbury uses allusions to expound and justify a belief and a point of view of a certain character or theme. “And on either side of the river was there a tree of life, which bare twelve manners of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations” (Bradbury 158). This quote is from the Book of Revelations chapter 22 verse 2 in the Bible. It was God’s message that there will be a real day where the world would end. Just like how the city in the book that once stood was destroyed in the end. But there is also the “tree of life” that signifies the belief in the afterlife--that there is a future where there is only peace and healing for nations after a war. This is just like what the Book People are trying to accomplish: to rebuild their society. Another example is the phoenix of God burning itself in flames until it turned it into ashes, and then one day appear differently: beautiful and anew (Bradbury 162). This alludes from the Book of Ecclesiastes