Ray Bradbury's Figurative Language

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Ray Bradbury uses figurative language to develop from a naïve tone to a frantic tone to emphasize that technology, the devices that we rely on so much will end up destroying society and nature will not miss our absence. The house, the protagonist in this story symbolizes mankind. Bradbury describes the house having a self-protective and an alert personality when the bird, a symbol of nature, brushes against the houses window. The author writes… “If a sparrow brushed a window, the shade sapped up. The bird, startled, flew off! No, not even a bird must touch the house!” This house not letting anything in implies technologies ignorance to the outside world.

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