In writing “August 2026,” Ray Bradbury creates a saddening mood through the words he chooses to use to describe the setting and story events. One way he creates the mood is when he describes the 5 paint marks on the wall. The mood is evident when he tells what the paint figures used to be because they once were humans and are now dead because of an atomic bomb and it’s scary to think that just one bomb can wipe out humanity. Another example of the mood is when is the dog dies. The reader begins to feel a saddening mood because the last thing to live is now dead and there’s nothing left to fix the world except for the machines that are fixed to only do certain things so they won’t end up being any help. Bradbury does so well with creating this
