Imagery In The Veldt By Ray Bradbury

The story “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury, is a dystopian story about a small family with a mysterious nursery. This isn’t any old nursery. This nursery can change setting, and can portray the effect of being in Africa. The kids in this family are so attached to the nursery that they can’t live without it. Ray Bradbury does a fantastic job of showing imagery throughout this story. Bradbury does it to help the reader better understand the story and to make it more enjoyable. In “The Veldt” imagery is so well written that you can imagine that you are there personally standing in the nursery.

In the beginning of the story, Ray Bradbury uses imagery. He writes an amazing sentence that really helps me play a movie in my head about the setting of the nursery. “The hot straw smell of lion grass, the cool green smell of the water hole, the great rusty smell of animals, the smell of dust like a red paprika in the hot air.” ( Bradbury 1 ) Using sentences like these helps make the story understandable and more exciting in a way, because he explains it so well it appeals to your senses. In this sentence I imagine myself standing in the middle of hot grasslands with the stuffy smell of animals and the cool smell of the water hole.

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