Harrison Bergeron And The Long Rain

In most stores that people read, they never notice metaphoric language. Readers may think that it is just a weird way to say something, but most metaphors have meanings. If readers pay more attention to this element it makes the story more interesting to read. Once someone reads while identifying metaphoric language, they will never stop. The authors of the two stories “The Long Rain” and “Harrison Bergeron” used metaphoric language to shape the mood and dominant themes of the stories.

In “The Long Rain,” by Ray Bradbury, metaphoric language is used to describe the rain, the emotional state of the characters, and how the characters look. Not only do these details change the mood of the story, but it also changes the theme. In the beginning

When authors describe emotions of the characters it shows how they feel in a situation and shapes a lot of themes because of that. One of the themes in this story is isolation. The emotions of all the characters are not happy ones. They feel tired and sick and they are in pain. There is no way to get off of Mars and they can’t find the Sun Dome. And the rain just makes everything worse for the characters. Because of the rain, the lieutenant needs to lie to the men to get them to keep walking so they can get to the Sun Dome. The more and more they walk the less and less the men trust the lieutenant. The men are in so much pain because they kept walking and they don't think that they will ever find the Sun Dome. Some of the men decide to quit and stop walking which leaves them to die. The theme of this story leans towards trust and

In “The Long Rain” Bradbury uses metaphoric language, similes, and personification. Personification is when a person, animal, or object is regarded as representing or embodying a quality, concept, or thing in this case, a storm. On page 232 it says “The Monster was supported upon a thousand electric blue legs.” And “It was half a mile wide and half a mile high and it felt off the ground like a great blind thing.” This was written so well that any reader could have thought it was an actual monster. In “Harrison Bergeron” Vonnegut describes handicaps in a way that a reader can feel and imagine it. He also describes Harrison so well that it feels like he’s right in front of you. When someone reads the story they can see the bag of birdshot, the lead balls, the masks. It feels so real. The reader might compare it to their life like how they might feel restricted in some ways. The idea of this story is to show what would happen in our future if everyone was totally equal. Both of these stories are very convincing and use metaphoric language in different