Figurative Language In The Martian Chronicles

School ending and summer starting always makes every student happy. But the thoughts of summer reading can change a students face from exciting summer beginnings to groans and moans as fast as a clap of thunder followed after a flash of lightning. However, if an incoming freshmen picked up The Martian Chronicles as their summer reading book then that exciting face of summer beginnings will stay. Ray Bradbury's science fiction book has an extensive amount of content and style, giving readers copious reasons to read it. With clear narration and distinct personification as well as a mysterious setting, The Martian Chronicles is clearly a book that should not be kicked off the summer reading list for next year's incoming freshmen.

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Their numerous writing strategies are what make a book enjoyable to read because of the numerous ways they enhance the topic in the book. Ray Bradbury uses a overabundance of writing strategies to enhance and entertain while reading The Martian Chronicles. In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury uses the writing strategy of figurative language to enhance the reading of the book. He uses multiple types of figurative language throughout the entire book. However, he uses personification the most in the novel. When Ray Bradbury wants to deepen the visuals of the book and make you almost be able to see the events going on in the book he uses personification. The narrator describes the fire: “Now the fire lay in beds, stood in windows, changed the color of the drapes” (Bradbury 171). This is the way that Ray Bradbury uses personification to enhance the meaning passage. The passage is talking about how the fire spread to the house. Ray Bradbury is giving the fire human-like qualities such as laying in beds, and standing in windows to show how quickly the fire is spreading throughout the house. Figurative language such as this example of personification and many more examples of figurative language are used throughout the novel. Here the narrator compares a character Elma in a metaphor: “Elma blinked around and slowly, as the ship was sent into the wind again, she helped herself, as if in a dream, back up to a

The Martian Chronicles revolves around the setting of Mars. Mars is a very interesting setting for many books considering the fact that humans have never set foot on Mars. Ray Bradbury’s descriptions of Mars are very unique and interesting to consider. Ray Bradbury describes Mars as a whole entire new world in The Martian Chronicles because he explains about how humans would live their life on Mars and how colonization would go on Mars if a majority of the population from the Earth moved to Mars. A lot of kids are interested in reading scientific-fiction books such as The Martian Chronicles. The book is interesting to many people for many different reasons. It makes readers ask questions, look more into Mars and curious to learning more about Mars. The topic of Mars being the setting of the book makes many questions buzz around in the reader’s head. For a book to have such an interesting setting, it should clearly stay on the summer reading list for next years incoming