Every once in a while, you come across an author that just get's it right, and Ray Bradbury just get's it right. The way he writes, the way his characters come to him and demand to be written about is how writing should always be done. He said that his love for reading and writing started early age. On one particular trip to the carnival, a man called the Electrical Man pointed to him and told him to live forever. Then later when he was at a funeral for his favorite uncle he decided to runaway from death and run towards life, and now because of his ground breaking books, Ray Bradbury will live forever. It is humorous how he wrote F451 in the basement of a libray, oh how beautiful the irony of life is. Bradbury says that he is Clairrise, that he was that little boy eagerly devouring book after book and loving life. When he was fifteen he discovered the dangerous of burning books when Hitler burned books. He realized that without the ability to read, you can't live in society.
Funny how some of the aspects in his book exist today. In the fifties it was unheard of people having TV's the size of walls or children killing other children, but now that is reality. Go to any celebrities house and they'll have a wall devoted to top of the chart HD flat screen TV, turn on the news and a new story about another school shooting will pop up. I'm not saying that Bradbury to blame for the world we live in, I'm just saying his predictions were very accurate. There is the slight possibility though that he did influence us, who's to know that an engineer didn't read his book then create the first flat screen TV? All Bradbury really did actually is warn us, warn us of a possibly reality that if we take technology to far, that possible will become real.
Ha ha I like your title. I laughed when he said that.
ReplyDeletewow loved your post:) you brought up great ideas and i liked how you said that he only worned us about what was to come! Oh and i love your title too:)
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