A Comparison Of Despair In TWCSR And Meteor

How do the authors use imagery to establish a mood of despair in two of the following stories? In TWCSR and Meteor, the detail is very descriptive. Both stories come to a point where they’re in a difficult situation. This is where imagery comes in. Imagery is used by the authors to establish a mood of despair when the characters are in a bit of a dilemma. For example, in TWCSR, the smart house is in a dilemma when it catches on fire and begins to be destroyed. In attempt to save itself, it had water sprayed on it by the mice, doors were shut to prevent fire from entering the home, etc. “The house tried to save itself. Doors sprang tightly shut, but the windows were broken by the heat and the wind blew and sucked upon the fire”(Bradbury,

Just like in TWCSR, despair is displayed when there’s an issue in the story. In Meteor, the main dilemma is that Onns’ planet is dying and they must find a new planet to live on. “And now we must solve the most difficult problem of all. Forta, our world, is old and nearly dead. The end is near, and we must escape while we are still healthy and strong. We must find a new home and make sure our race survives”(Wyndham, 2). The aliens are also in despair when they are attacked by the cat while on Earth. “A huge black paw, suddenly showing long, sharp claws, smacked down. When the paw was raised again, twenty of our men and women were no more than marks on the ground. The paw came down again. Eleven more of us were killed”(Wyndham, 9). Once again, the aliens were in despair when the Globe was taken from them by the huge creatures (humans). “They bent over it, put their front legs to it, and lifted that unbelievably heavy ball of metal from the ground. Then the ground shook again even more violently as they walked away carrying the extra weight. Our Globe, with all the precious things in it, is lost”(Wyndham, 11). The creatures were now truly in despair because the Globe, which was everything they needed to start their new world, was gone. To add on to this situation, most of their men, including their third new leader that day, had been killed by the humans. “They were attacked by fierce grey creatures about half the size