Death In Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man

Steve Jobs and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow face death as if it’s not a bad thing. Jobs believed in having nothing to lose, so why waste it? “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap thinking you have something to lose. YOu are already naked. There is no reason not to follow you heart” (Jobs 3). Longfellow, like Jobs, believes in a happy life is the end goal. “Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,/ Is our destined end or way;/ But to act that each to-morrow/ Find us farther than ot-day” (Longfellow 9-12). JObs and Longfellow both encounter death. They agree people die, owning up to death leads to a stronger and inspiring life.

The scientific novel The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury collects 18 different stories and shows certain common themes in order to reflect real life concerns and problems during World War II in the 1950s. Ray Bradbury uses an overall serious narrative method in this novel to introduce the illustrated man as a storyteller for telling a clear moral point of view. The creative imagination as one of them, which related to most of the story. It points out the dangers of imagination for children and society and the power of imagination for achievement life goal. Ray Bradbury disputes that the creative imagination will always appear based on different situations; therefore, positive experiences stimulate imagination, while negative experiences of imagination lead people to lose control.

Another part of living is also knowing that death follows. No one can escape it as much

      It seems that only when presented with death, we realize the little but very important aspects of life. Living, being alive, things we should probably hold higher in our day to day thought’s than most of us do. The importance of having a job, success, and obtaining wealth mask us to the fact that life is short. In the aforementioned story, just before the man dies, he is thinking about his family and his home. Only in death, can the man see their importance in his life. The reason for his death is no longer important. In the end his only thoughts are of what he loved most.

“The only people that fear death are the people with regret.” -Anonymous In the Harlem Renaissance and Post Modern time period many poems about death were written and they showed us the many different views and struggles about death, and how no one can escape it's cold clammy grasp. I will compare 4 different poems 2 from the Harlem renaissance and 2 from the post modern time period and how they both have similar struggles in death. Firstly we are going to take a look at Harlem by Langston Hughes, and Richard Cory, by Edwin Arlington.

During that time, there were difficulties for each and every family. Some family is poor so each and everyone starved. Some are complicated to handle so one get sale in order to get a living. In the Bundren family, there was obstacle after obstacle. Each and one of them is forced to give up their own dreams and needs. When the Bundren family were traveling, there were difficulties on the way. The road was meeting Anse expectations, the weather wasn’t good, because of that, he blames it for his wife ill health. The way the head of the family, a father, a husband is acting is lowering the hope for the family. Because of the way he is acting, each and one of the family member has to put up with it. This can be the reason that they are not caring for the family but instead caring about their self-interest. “It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end ( 47 Faulkner). The shows that in our world, things like that can happen. For instance, a family is happily having a meal, everybody is laughing, cheering, yelling cause of excitement, but one of them is unhappy, grumpy, sad, confused. That one member is feels left out. In order to let her anger out, she starts yelling at her sisters and brothers out of no reason. She yells at them for nothing putting the plate right. Yells at them for not walking straight. Suddenly, each and one of the family members feels sad, unhappy, confused just like her. Because of all the fuss, each and one the, family members felt uneasy. This example relates to As I Lay Dying because both families have to give up their own

The end of the world is portrayed as a positive event in "The Highway" and The Walking Dead because it causes the destruction of civilisation. In both theses works, the hallmarks of contemporary civilisation, such as technology and modernity, are portrayed as bad things because they create lazy, entitled and dependant people. In Bradbury 's "The Highway", this is shown in the contrast between Hernando and the American tourists. Hernando, who represents a more natural way of life, is noble and hard-working. The American tourists, on the other hand, represent modern civilisation; they are spoiled, lazy, and complain about everything. They also act like Hernando is a tourist attraction and not a human

Death is an Illusion, when a person comes to its demise, it does not disappear. Instead, it unifies with the environment around them. Ray Bradbury’s collection of short novels found in the Illustrated Man contain a variety of different ideas and perspectives of life, including his perspective about the ending of humanity and death as a whole. The Last Night of the World and Kaleidoscope illustrates these specific ideas and warn us about our behavior as a race. Quoted by George Orwell “Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”

I accept Ivan’s insights, because death will come with everyone. We cannot deny it anyway. Therefore, instead of being fear and suffer by death, we better prepare a good attitude to accept it.

Life’s greatest mystery among the living has always been death. Although death is a universal experience, the question, “what happens after death?” has haunted humanity throughout all of history. Even the most intelligent beings of the human race have argued the issue of death through the lenses of science, religion, and philosophy, and come to no agreeable conclusion. Death is an inevitable phenomenon, but it remains the most daunting unanswerable question. In her poem “When Death Comes”, Mary Oliver uses simile, metaphor and a comforting, inspirational tone to minimize the fear and arguments surrounding death and emphasize the importance of fulfilling life. Rather than being a daunting end, death’s approach should be a motivation to experience

In life we all will experience many different problems and situations some good and some bad. However we as people may not always experience the same problems and situations. In addition to this one thing that is for sure we will all experience something called death, and death is something that no one can avoid. What is death? Webster’s Dictionary defines death as “the end of life; the time when someone or something dies or the permanent end of something that is not alive: the ruin or destruction of something.” Therefore that is what the morality play Everyman is based upon life in a spiritual sense and death. The morality play, “Everyman uses fictional characters to represent what he holds onto and values during

1. Is the husband insensitive and indifferent to his wife’s grief? Has Frost invited us to sympathize with one character more than with the other?

Over the course our human race on Earth, humans have always ruminated regarding our different perceptions of death. We communicate these thoughts through storytelling, folktales, religious exegeses, scientific explanations and numberous other means. The inevitability of death impacts all of us in a diverse way that slightly alters ouir sense of youth. Humankind's nature is to become distressed by the unkown factors of things we are uncertain of. In particular, the fictional narratives, The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allen Poe, and The HItchhiker by Lucilly Fletcher , both explore ideas concerning the passing of life. Comparably, the thwo short stories convey a sense of the insighful and intellectual philopsophy that prompts the curiosity of

As Mark Twain said, “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” Mary Oliver in her poem embraces the same idea that Mark Twain presents in his quote; she is no longer afraid of death because she embraces life fully and accepts the fact that death will come, and when it does come she will be proud of her life and all that she has accomplished. Oliver’s use of symbolism, personification, repetition, and alliteration throughout the poem assists in the meaning of the poem – that death is certain but should not be feared but rather embraced and used as a tool to fully live ones life. When death comes is a poem about Oliver anticipating the arrival of death in a myriad of ways. Oliver captures the innate curiosity humans have regarding death. She also regards life as precious, and hopes like many others that when she dies she can be happy with the way she lived her life without doubts and regrets.

In today?s modern society we have a certain distaste for the subject of death. There are people in society feel uncomfortable with the subject of death. The subject of death is a reality that we need to face everyday. There is nothing any of us can do about