s from a hotel play a baseball game against some of the white guests. Since this story was written a long time ago, some of the language is harsh, but the story clearly expresses the racist view of many whites and the kindness of many blacks. The black servants dominate the white players in the game. A lot of the white men and women involved in the game are rude and mean to the black people. Since the story is told through the eyes of a child, the point of view is honest and unbiased. This story is cleverly written and attacks racism. Bradbury was opposed to segregation, and he was not afraid to denounce it in the most effective way he could, through his pen (Bradbury The Stories of Ray Bradbury 280).Bradbury's stories have very interesting effects on the minds of the characters. Sometimes characters alter their religious beliefs in these stories. Since Bradbury believes in transcendentalism, many of the characters in his stories begin to follow it. In "Powerhouse", a woman turns to transcendentalist beliefs. After her epiphany, The earth was suddenly more than many separate things, more than houses, rocks, concrete roads, a horse here or there, a human in the shallow, boulder-topped grave, a prickling cactus, a town invested with its own light surrounded by night, a million apart things. Suddenly it all had one pattern encompassed and held by the pulsing electric web (Bradbury 294).The woman finds her unity with the universe through relaxation. Another story that deals with transcendentalism is "The Fire Balloons." In this story a Catholic priest turns to transcendentalist ideals. The priest realizes that his beliefs are not necessarily correct, and he accepts that there are things he does not know or comprehend yet, but that everything will fit together eventually like a jigsaw puzzle (Johnson 131). Although he does not write about it often, religious themes are found is Bradbury's writings.Death is an interesting theme ...
