The Flying Machine By Ray Bradbury

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A man is killed for what he has made, a machine the could possibly ruin china. This is “exactly what what happen in the story flying machine. In the story “The Flying Machine” by Ray Bradbury is story of a man that makes a machine that allows him the fly. The emperor see the machine made out of bamboo and paper. he looks at the great wall of china and calls the man down. The emperor calls for the man's execution in fear of another country taking the machine and using it against. He kills the man then burn the machine so no other man can use the machine made out of bamboo and paper. In the Story "The Wise Old Woman" by Yoshiko Uchida is about a young lord who banishes people over the age of 71 and they’re taken to mountains. The farmer who was

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