Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury is an accomplished American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. His writing style is like none other. Some say he is a science fiction writer; however, others argue that he merely uses the far-out setting to criticize racism, censorship, technology, nuclear war, and humanistic values (Johnston). All of his work closely relates to his life and the personal experiences he has gone through. First, his early life in Illinois and Arizona influenced his first writings. This was a time when he first started experimenting with writing. Second, Bradbury's writing style relates to his past experiences, because he said that he learned to write recalling past experiences (Umland 6). During this period of time, Bradbury begins to discover himself as a writer. He develops his own style and process for writing. Lastly, his major works represent the feelings of Americans during the era in which he wrote. The Martian Chronicles, his first well known novel, and still one of his best known novels, is a great example of this because it relates to the readers emotions about atomic warfare during the World War II era. Ray Bradbury's early life in Illinois and Arizona influenced his first writ
Another example of Bradbury's work reflecting how America felt as a whole during the era, in which he wrote, would be Farenheit 451. This novel is staged in the future when a totalitarian state governs the people and forbids the reading of books. This appealed to many readers because Bradbury wrote the novel in response to the cold war atmosphere after World War II (Mogen105). Therefore, at the time, many readers could relate to a totalitarian state because they most likely lived through part of World War II. Despite many beliefs, Bradbury didn't write this novel to criticize society and the ability of a Government to control all aspects of life, but rather directed the novel's sarcasm at "anti-intellectualism and cramped materialism posing as social philosophy"(Mogen 105). Lastly, his major works represent the feelings of Americans during the time period in which he wrote. The Martian Chronicles, written in 1950, is about the attempted colonization of Mars by humans. The human civilization is constantly hindered by a gentle Martian race. Eventually it led to nuclear war. This story plot represents how Americans felt after World War II in the late 1940s. Bradbury's style appeals to the reader in many ways because he writes what the reader can relate to. The novel appealed to the reader because it contains situations that the reader has experienced. It brought out old desires and fears of the past. The conflicts, which arise in the novel, represent the conflicts, which our country was also dealing with, such as "the conflict between the east and the west", and "the Old World and the New" which in the novel is Earth and Space (Mogen 82). Bradbury found his creative side through the same process in which he writes his stories. In the last year of his high school he stumbled into his own creativity when he was writing about the ravine in his hometown, and the fear of it at night (Bradbury 14). He felt the only thing to do now was to continue writing constantly to develop his own style. Bradbury was very active in his writings when he was younger so he continued to write "at least a thousand words a day everyday from the age twelve on"(Bradbury 15). In conclusion, there are many factors that influenced Bradbury's writing. His style was developed early on by the way he viewed his world, specifically by writing about his memories and experiences. He relied
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