Ray Bradbury writes in styles that pull you into the book. He writes in ways which both grownups and kids can relate to. Something we must decipher from this writing is his standpoint on what he writes about; growing up. We take his voice out of the writing in his selection of words he uses. Dandelion wine is a book written about the magic of summer and how each summer is special. Douglas, the antagonist, sees summer as a time where all restraints are released from him. Ray Bradbury supports the idea that Douglas expresses. The author, Ray Bradbury, agrees with the idea that kids are separate beings from parents, as douglas says after he is punished by his father. “Doug, you hit it, you hit it! Thats right! That's exactly why we don’t get along with mom or dad. Trouble, trouble, from sunrise to supper. Boy you're a genius!” Many words Bradbury uses in this scene reveal his true thoughts about this quote. The over-excitement that the quote …show more content…
“The reason why grownups and kids fight is because the belong to separate races. Look at them, different from us. Look at us, different from them. Separate races, and never the twain shall meet!” Using extreme words like “never” only goes to show that Bradburry feels more strongly about Douglas’s message. “Look at us, look at them” is also an important line because in this line he separates himself from the parents, which furthur shows his experiences. In the quote, he repeats the ideas of being separate and also says “Look at them, look at us. Look at us, look at them.” An average boy enjoying summer does not pause and say complicated phrases like that. This phrase is more sophisticated then a kid enjoying summer would say because repetition is one of the great literary devices used to convey a point, and douglas is too simple to go around making causal quotes like that. This is truly a quote from the author