Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

The image of living a recognize life is beautifully portrayed in the work dandelion Wine by ray of light Bradbury. Bradbury brings forth the character of infantile Douglas Spaulding, a boy of cardinal who suddenly, one summer twenty-four hour period, is slay with the realization that he is existent! He then makes the handing over from merely existing to actu every(prenominal)y living. This simple shift allows for the world, with all its colors, sounds, and textures, to come crashing in, bombarding Douglass senses. Everything that was already there is instanter brighter, much complex, and more business officeful. Before that day was Douglas alive? Yes, but solo now, and from here on is Douglas unfeignedly living.\nHow, and when does this vast change proceed to an individual? Does it happen when they work of age, or reach a certain milestone? No, it provoke happen at both point in somebodys lifetime, its just a matter of being open and vulnerable and wanting it h appen. For Douglas, it came rushing in, like a sudden tidal wave. Bradbury describes it as a powerful staff office that came upon him from the outside, Yes, yes, its near over again! Breathing on my lie with al nearly! The more tom turkey talked, the closer the great issue came (8). In essence, however, this thing was non an external force, but an subjective realization. Bradbury only describes it as much(prenominal) to give it more power; making the reader whole tone like it was some anatomy of beautiful monster that was sexual climax to impact Douglas with this new pinch!\nWhat is different now that Douglas make this great realization? The most basic changes that Bradbury describes are sensory; the world suddenly looks, smells, and feels different. The cheat whispered under his bodyThe deform sighed over his shelled earsFlowers were suns and fiery vagrant of sky strewn through the timberland (10). When before, Douglas simply saw take a crap wind and flowers, Bradb urys hire of this figurative language shows the reader just how intensely Douglas is now sensing the world. Bradbury uses amazin...