For this post, I’ll be quoting from the following edition of Ray Bradbury’s masterful novel Something Wicked This Way Comes: Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes. Large Print edition, Center Point Publishing, 2000. The page numbers will be different if you are reading from another edition of the book. Something Wicked This Way Comes…
Category: Theme
The House or Home as a Theme in Literature
I have read many books, poems, and short stories, and I have listened to many songs, too. In my humble opinion, much of the literature will say something about a house or two. Some of writing describes a house as warm and fuzzy. Some of it describes a house as cold and sterile. Some of…
Small in the City by Sydney Smith – A Picture Book that Looks at the City [as Opposed to Nature]
Small in the CIty Sydney Smith 2019 Holiday House Rated as One of the Best Picture Books of 2019 by School Library Journal This book has become one of my all-time favorites. But I won’t give away many of those reasons. This is the kind of book that you absolutely MUST read for yourself. There…
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
In my opinion, EVERY writer should read Ray Bradbury and Mark Twain. Those two guys seem to have born few resemblances. They lived in different periods of time and they wrote differently, but these two guys were alike in that they are masters of words, and if a writer is not a master of words,…
The Veldt by Ray Bradbury
Back History Before You Read the Story The Veldt by Ray Bradbury. Bradbury will mention Rima in the story The Veldt. I had to do some research to understand who she was, Rima was an idealized girl of the jungle in GREEN MANSIONS: A Romance of the Tropical Forest by W. H. Hudson, published in…
A Fence by Carl Sandburg
A Fence Carl Sandburg Now the stone house on the lake front is finished and the workmen are beginning the fence. The palings are made of iron bars with steel points that can stab the life out of any man who falls on them. As a fence, it is a masterpiece, and will shut off…
Circles as Symbols and Themes in Literature
“…the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit.” ― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca “Circles are not just geometrical symbols but are also what makes life possible. The sun is a circle, and…
Symbols in Literature – Symbolism
What Is A Symbol in Literature? In literature, a symbol occurs when one word in writing suggests an understanding of something different. Although it is not a powerful symbol, a heart might symbolize love–in terms of visual symbolism. Symbols are important in literature. The night or darkness can be a symbol in literature. Daytime or…