complex interrelationshipsbetween time, setting, place, character, and dialogue. Each of these elements is pulledfrom the depths of Bradbury's imagination and given to the reader to imagine.Much of Bradbury's famous novel writing develops from short story ideas. Fahrenheit 451 was originally a short story titled "The Fireman," published in 1951 inGalaxy Science Fiction. Quite often Bradbury composes large novels from short storiesin 20 days of high-speed writing. However, his drafts require little line editing. He isvery careful in choosing words, and his vocabulary paints a picture of his novel so thatthe reader can become more involved with the story. Bradbury's use of metaphors - which, according to him, are a method used forcomprehending one reality and expressing it in terms of another - is a vital part of hisliterary style. He uses metaphors to permit the reader to view what the author is saying. Bradbury's writings in general can be described as a metaphor of generalized nostalgia;that is, he writes not merely for the past but also for the future.Today, after forty years of writing and countless poems, novels, stories, plays, andscripts, Ray Bradbury remains one of the most popular American writers. He is a verycommon sight in the lecture circuit. Bradbury has captured the past, present, and futureof our society, in amazing and intricate stories that perhaps no other writer will ever beable to duplicate. His writings will continue to enchant the people of the future as muchas it has enchanted people for the past forty years....
