Silence. You look into the nursery and find nothing. Blank, 2-D walls surround you. Taking a step into the nursery the landscape automatically changes. Now, it seems, you’re surrounded by an African veldt. So meticulously detailed that all the colors are perfected, and every last pebble and stick is in pristine position. Imagery, in most stories, is used so that the reader can understand the setting, and predict what might happen. In Ray Bradbury’s story, “The Veldt”, Bradbury uses imagery throughout the story to create the setting, raise the stakes, and to set up the problem.
In the beginning of the story, Bradbury uses imagery to create the setting. “The nursery was silent. It was empty as a jungle glade at hot high noon. The walls were blank …show more content…
Towards the end of the story Bradbury uses imagery to set up the problem. “There was a green, lovely forest, a lovely river, a purple mountain, high voices singing, and Rima, lovely and mysterious, lurking in the trees with colorful flights of butterflies, like animated bouquets, lingering in her long hair. The African veldtland was gone. The lions were gone. Only Rima was here now, singing a song so beautiful that it brought tears to your eyes.” Bradbury sets up the problem, by using the imagery to describe how the scene in the nursery changed from an African veldt to a forest with mountains instead of a dusty desert, a river instead of a waterhole, and Rima instead of the lions. This sets up the problem because before Wendy went in the nursery to check on the scene it was an African veldt. After Wendy came back the scene had changed to a forest. When George asked Wendy if she changed it she said no. The only way for the nursery to change is if someone tells it to, so it means that Wendy lied about changing the nursery and that will cause a problem later on in the story.
In conclusion, Ray Bradbury’s story, “The Veldt,” uses imagery in many different ways. By using imagery to create the setting, raise the stakes, and to set up the problem Bradbury was able to get the readers to understand the story more. Using different craft moves for different purposes lets the readers become more interested and
In the beginning of the story, Bradbury uses imagery to create the setting. “The nursery was silent. It was empty as a jungle glade at hot high noon. The walls were blank …show more content…
Towards the end of the story Bradbury uses imagery to set up the problem. “There was a green, lovely forest, a lovely river, a purple mountain, high voices singing, and Rima, lovely and mysterious, lurking in the trees with colorful flights of butterflies, like animated bouquets, lingering in her long hair. The African veldtland was gone. The lions were gone. Only Rima was here now, singing a song so beautiful that it brought tears to your eyes.” Bradbury sets up the problem, by using the imagery to describe how the scene in the nursery changed from an African veldt to a forest with mountains instead of a dusty desert, a river instead of a waterhole, and Rima instead of the lions. This sets up the problem because before Wendy went in the nursery to check on the scene it was an African veldt. After Wendy came back the scene had changed to a forest. When George asked Wendy if she changed it she said no. The only way for the nursery to change is if someone tells it to, so it means that Wendy lied about changing the nursery and that will cause a problem later on in the story.
In conclusion, Ray Bradbury’s story, “The Veldt,” uses imagery in many different ways. By using imagery to create the setting, raise the stakes, and to set up the problem Bradbury was able to get the readers to understand the story more. Using different craft moves for different purposes lets the readers become more interested and