Ray Bradeburry's Dandelion Wine: Summary

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1. Ray Bradeburry wrote Dandelion Wine because it almost seems like it goes through the moments of his life. It explains imagination, almost as if your a 12 year old reading the book and how children think about things differently than adults. He uses dandelions throughout the book as a continuous metaphor, so he also wrote the book to be a continuous metaphor so it would be more interesting.

2. The main character is a 12 year old boy named Douglas Spaulding. We know that he has quite an imagination, he pretends to see a lot of things that aren't actually there.

3. The author uses simile in chapter one when he says "birds leaped from trees like a net thrown by his hand." The author uses metaphor in chapter 2 when he says "the water was

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