![]() It’s not The Martian Chronicles, but the tattoos on the illustrated man do tell some stories about the red planet. “The white, white jungle with the pale cheese-colored leaves, and the earth carved of wet Camembert, and the tree boles like immense toadstools-everything black and white.” Mars Just the strangeness of the comparison is often enough to create the mood or atmosphere desired: The nice thing about writing within a genre like science fiction is that precision does not always have to be at the forefront of a metaphor. On the other hand, sometimes the way to go is toss in some really off-the-wall comparisons and allow the reader to figure out the figurative language on their own. “The ship was quiet as a stopped clock.” Confusing and Complex Whereas the example above pile up a collection of images on top of the next, much can also be accomplished with a simple declarative statement that just about anybody could relate to: Sometimes the most effective metaphor can be the simplest. They were scattered into a dark sea and the ship, in a million pieces, went on, a meteor swarm seeking a lost sun.” Simple and Effective The men were thrown into space like a dozen wriggling silverfish. “The first concussion cut the rocket up the side with a giant can opener. The imagery which piles up quite quickly here is effective at creating an image in the mind for the reader of something that-at least when he was writing-most could not easily imagine based on film or TV: The opening paragraph of “Kaleidoscope” is-appropriately, if not necessarily by design-a kaleidoscope of metaphorical imagery. “the man was a walking treasure gallery” "Kaleidoscope" All the expenditure of information on the subjects and vivid quality of colors are less viable a means of conveying his overall appearance than one single, easily digested and understood metaphor: ![]() In the prologue to the collection which introduces the unifying element-the illustrated man-the tattoos covering his body which give him his nickname as described in great detail with flourishes of prose. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. An odd refreshment for Africa, the cup of tea is a metaphor for civilized society and amenities, now swallowed up in the veldt of chaotic disorder, where children destroy their parents with a thought.These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() Africa is on permanent display, including the slaughtered parents, and Wendy offers McClean tea. Tea and No Sympathyīradbury saves his finest metaphor for last, as McClean enters the nursery after the adult Hadleys have been devoured by the all-too-real veldt lions. The nursery mirrors their destructive, unfettered young ids. Barrie, have found their Neverland, and Peter - "a wise one for ten" - sets the controls to permanent Africa so they can never grow up. Peter and Wendy, named right out of James M. Steven Kagle called "The Veldt" a work "controlled by new standards of belief." Certainly, Bradbury wants it that way his changeling youths, metaphors for the universal desire to escape into technological fantasy, force us to re-imagine our ideas of what children should be. two years old you were shooting people with cap pistols." this bake-oven with murder in the heart." Bradbury links nursery toys to primal hatred and death, reflecting that Wendy and Peter, like most of humanity, are not too young for "death thoughts. ![]() Ultimately the veldt rules, as David enters the nursery and "stepped into Africa. Metaphor and Metamorphosisīradbury extends the nursery's metaphor into that of a godlike hunter, as it "caught the telepathic emanations" of the children and "created life to fill their every desire." The children become as obsessed with the nursery as cell phone addicts. which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep." The metaphor of "house as mother" is intensified in the nursery, whose walls "begin to purr and recede" into an African veldt, complete with lions feeding at a distance upon "some animal." The beasts then move so close that "the yellow of them was in your eyes." The Hadley adults begin to realize that "the house is wife and mother now," and the quite unmotherly nursery is a source of savagery. Bradbury's chilling tale exalts mechanization over humanity with the Hadley's "Happylife House.
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