I love how Ray Bradbury use the senses of sight and hearing to enchant
his writing, making you see through his letter, make you feel like you are
really in the book. There are many examples, however this one is my favorite:
"The children
pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds, intermixed, peering
out for a look at the hidden sun. It rained. It had been raining for seven
years; thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to
the other with
rain, with the drum and gash of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands." (Bradbury 1)
When I read this, I feel as I am one of the kids, trying to see the
unseen sun. Tired of a life under the clouds, under the rain that falls day
after day, week after week, and year after year. I see, the water droplets
going down a crystal of a window, and I hear the never ending drumming of the
splash of the rain in the surface, never ending, never ever ending.
However the people, mainly kids, which live in Venus match the mood of
their weather. But Margot is more secluded, but it is not her fault, the other
ignore her:
Margot |
"Margot stood
alone, she was a very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost
in the rain for years and the rain had washed out the clue from her eyes
and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair.......... Now she
stood, separated, staring at the rain and the loud wet world beyond the huge
glass."
(Bradbury 2)
This shows how Margot is frail, not only by seeming colorless, but she
stands apart, she secludes herself and the other seclude her. She seems always
sad by how she stands alone, and her appearance also gives her that melancholic
aura.
This story is not only about entertainment,
but also it gives us a message. This message is that we should not seclude
people and at the same time appreciate every precious moment we have. Also the
theme is that people must appreciate every moment they have.