Ray Bradbury's Use Of Literary Techniques In The Veldt

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People can be good at many things, and sometimes they are the best at those things. I believe that Ray Bradbury, focused on multiple craft moves in The Veldt such as dialogue, personification, and flashbacks to show that he can be one of the best, when it comes to adding craft moves into his writing. He made the writing more interesting and described and showed the moments in different ways. He also used many different craft moves throughout the story, but I think that these three, dialogue, personification, and flashbacks are the most important, and I believe that without these craft moves the story wouldn’t have as big of an impact on the reader as it did with them.

Ray Bradbury used dialogue to show how the characters are feeling at that exact moment, and is shown throughout the story to show interactions between characters in that moment in time. The dialogue that Bradbury uses throughout the story also shows the personality of the character that is speaking, and some of their behaviors. Some evidence that helps support this is when George told the children that they had just seen Africa, and the kids lied and said that they had never put Africa into the nursery. “I don’t understand,” said Peter. ‘Your mother and I were just traveling through Africa with rod and reel; Tom Swift and his electric lion,’ said George Hadley. ‘There is no Africa in the nursery,’ said Peter Simply.” This dialogue shows that the characters are disagreeing on something at that …show more content…

Personification was a very good way of making a dimple scene fell like a very intriguing one. One example of this is in the beginning when he describes the way the walls were in the nursery. “The walls began to purr and recede into crystalline distance. This shows that Bradbury could use craft moves to describe a scene very