The Ray Bradbury stories “There Will Come Soft Rain”, “Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed”, “All Summer In A Day”, and Fahrenheit 451 are all connected by the way they are written, the conflicts the characters face and the themes of the story. In every story that Ray Bradbury has written there is a drastic drawing to similes and personification. Which is meant to elevate the feelings of the story to give it more imagery and make it a little more suspenseful to the story. Each story that he has written has been in a setting on either futuristic earth or on different planets. Ray Bradbury was an American science fiction author he was one of the most celebrated authors in the 21st century his most known novel was Fahrenheit 451, sadly he passed …show more content…
The setting did create tension in the stories, if not all, in “There Will Come Soft Rain”. “The house stood alone in a city of rubble and ashes. This was the one house left standing. At night the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow which could be seen for miles.” This setting in the future brings tension because it gives you the information that there has been a nuclear war or some war that has destroyed the city leaving everything except one house rubble. While in “Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed” the setting was different but with the same tension builder. “Atomic bombs hit New York! All the space rockets were blown up. No more rockets to mars ever." The settings in all the stories create some kind of conflict between the two stories that create the most conflict would be “Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed” made conflict in the character's by causing a internal conflict in Harry because he wants to go home but can't and the environment of Mars is changing the people slowly. “The roses. The roses. They're turning green.!” Which shows that even if the internal conflict wasn't there the fact Mars was changing people could be for the better or for the worse.“All Summer in a Day” The setting creates conflict by only one of the kids had seen the 7 year event and no one else except the parents/ teachers believed her wich made the other kids harder on Margot wich got her into some trouble when the kids decided to lock her in a room so she couldn't see the event. “"All a joke!" said the boy, and seized her roughly. "Hey, everyone, let’s put her in a closet before the teacher comes!" "No," said Margot, falling back. They surged about her, caught her up and bore her, protesting, and then pleading, and then crying, back into a tunnel, a room, a closet, where they slammed and locked the door. They stood looking at the door and saw it tremble