![]() The Great Chicago Fire in 1871 destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, but Chicago's population continued to grow to 503,000 by 1880 and then doubled to more than a million within the decade. It grew rapidly in the mid-19th century by 1860, Chicago was the youngest U.S. On the shore of Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed. county), the city is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area, one of the largest in the world. As the seat of Cook County (the second-most populous U.S. With a population of 2,746,388 in the 2020 census, it is also the most populous city in the Midwestern United States. state of Illinois and the third-most populous in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. Bradbury takes common techniques of writing and makes them his own by using them in a certain way to present his ideas in a unique style.Chicago ( / ʃ ɪ ˈ k ɑː ɡ oʊ/ ( listen) shih- KAH-goh, locally also / ʃ ɪ ˈ k ɔː ɡ oʊ/ shih- KAW-goh) is the most populous city in the U.S. He writes with these three types of figurative language in different ways in all of his pieces of work. Ray Bradbury expresses similar patterns in his work by using irony, personification, and imagery. This example of imagery contrasts how Bradbury typically uses his words to display desolation and despair. When he describes this “machine,” he makes the reader visualize a pleasant and warm home filled with joy. ” Towards the end of the short story, Leo discovers a real happiness machine. Bradbury continues to use imagery in “The Happiness Machine. ” The way he describes the “Deeps” makes it all seem magical yet realistic. Imagery is also present when McDunn explains to Johnny how the monster “hid away in the Deeps. ” This makes the reader understand how secluded McDunn and Johnny were out at the lighthouse and intensifies the oddness of the appearance of the sea monster. He describes how the “stone tower” emitted a light that flashed red and white out to the “lonely ships” “in the cold water far from land. Bradbury makes the reader visualize the “long grey lawn of the sea stretching away into nothing and nowhere” with his descriptive vocabulary. “The Foghorn” portrays another source of imagery. The imagery in “The Pedestrian” sets the mood and describes the setting. These vivid descriptions allow the reader to feel the loneliness and absence of life in the city and its streets. Bradbury also points out the “tomblike buildings” and “gray phantoms” along the sides of the road. In “The Pedestrian”, he described the highways as “only dry riverbeds” empty of vehicles. ![]() ![]() ” It is further personified when the room itself kills the parents.īradbury also frequently uses imagery in his work. The walls changed from blankness to the veldt with a “purr” and “reproduced to the final pebble and bit of straw. ” The nursery that Wendy and Peter spend most of their time in is described with human-like qualities. ![]() Bradbury continues to use personification in “The Veldt. The foghorn made a “great deep cry” that vibrated in the “throat of the tower” as the “light, switching its tail,” shone bright in the distance. ” He gives the foghorn human-like characteristics when relating it to the monster. ” Bradbury also uses personification in “The Foghorn. ” Bradbury also described the fire as being “clever” as it attacked “the attic brain” and “rushed back into every closet and felt of the clothes hung there. ” The fire was personified when it “fed upon Picassos and Matisses… lay in beds, stood in windows. The house “quivered at each sound” and is described as the attic being the brain and the exposed oak beams as “its bare skeleton” and all of “its nerves revealed. ” Bradbury describes the house with human like qualities in how it defends itself against the fire which is also personified. It is most prominent in “There Will Come Soft Rains. Personification is another common literary device in Bradbury’s work. The family has been killed and the house soon after dies but the sun continues to rise and set as if nothing has happened. ![]() ” It is ironic because the poem is warning the family how the war will destroy them but nature will continue on when that is exactly what has happened. The poem explains how nature “would not mind…if mankind perished utterly. In “There Will Come Soft Rains”, the house reads a poem to the emptiness where a family once was. Leo then finds that true happiness cannot be created by a machine but is found in the heart of his family. ” This is ironic because what Leo thought was a Happiness Machine is really a Sadness Machine. ![]()
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