naticism, or hero worship of one sort or another" (Riley, 1975, p. 85). Dimeo also says that the more we get into space, the more religious we become. Science has put man closer to the heavens that he had formerly considered the dominion of supreme beings. Dimeo also finishes by saying that Bradbury places man predictably at the center of the universe in the good old Renaissance tradition (Riley, 1975).In an analysis of Bradbury’s writing style, Magil states that every piece of writing compiled by Bradbury is a discovery of himself. Each discovery is different and can flow in the past or in the future. "Several critics have pictured him as a frontiersmen, ambivalently astride two worlds, who has alternately been attracted to an idealistic past and to a graphic future" (1991, p. 356).Magil also writes of the romanticism of Bradbury’s writing. Several conflicts are shown in his literature between human vitality and spiritless mechanism, between imagination and reason, and between the innocence of childhood and the corruptions of adulthood. Magil also speaks of the conflict in Bradbury’s own life having an affect on his literature. The conflict being between his own spirit against modern materialism and the driving need and use of such things has made other critics accuse him of "sentimentality and navet" (1991, p. 357).Bradbury has also been said to been a strongly autobiographical writer. Magil explains that Bradbury has often pointed to experiences in his life when writing his literature. "He once said that everything he has ever done were created by the primitive experiences of monsters and angels he had when he was five years old" (1991, p. 357).Bradbury has been shown through his criticisms to be one of the most influential writers of his time and still continues to be....
