In Ray Bradbury’s “The Flying Machine,” Bradbury claims that inventions that people create are intended to help but the outcome can be negative or positive. There are several details that support his statement. First, “the Emperor looked into the sky. And in the sky, laughing so high that you could hardly hear him laugh, was a man.” This is the first time the Emperor say the flying machine and he was astonished and memerized about how it looked and what it did. The Emperor thought it was beautiful but something needed to be done so he called the flier down. Furthermore when the flier got to the Emperor he asked twice “what have you done ?” The flier didn’t give him a good answer. They walked through the garden to the great house and when they