Ray Bradbury Thesis Statement

Many consider the Great Depression a tragedy but few actually know the ways in which it actually affected the people who lived through it. One way it affected the people of the time is the hopelessness it brought. During the early 1920's many men returned from the "Great War" jaded and angry. The same effect was seen in most people during the depression. It was this hopelessness that spawned modernist literature and thought. Another way the depression affected the everyday man was the loss of homes. Many homes were foreclosed during the depression and this left many homeless. In fact the "Okies" were people left homeless after farm foreclosures. The last way the depression affected people was the broken homes it caused. The number of father's leaving their families rose dramatically during

In the book Fahrenheit 451 the theme is a society/world that revolves around being basically brain washed or programmed because of the lack of people not thinking for themselves concerning the loss of knowledge, and imagination from books that don't exist to them. In such stories as the Kurt Vonnegut's "You have insulted me letter" also involving censorship to better society from vulgarity and from certain aspects of life that could be seen as disruptive to day to day society which leads to censorship of language and books. Both stories deal with censorship and by that society is destructed in a certain way by the loss of knowledge from books.

The Great Depression affected all Americans in certain ways. In Alan Brinkley’s Voices of Protest he contends that although the wealthy lost some of their fortunes during this time, they were the leaders of corporations, business, and industrial manufacturing plants that produced products still need and utilized by the rest of the country. They employed fewer employees at lower wages, and produced less product, but they were able to maintain a profit to sustain their wealth. The poor were already poor, so their lot in life remained the same, finding jobs at low wages or continuing to receive assistance from the community, charity organizations, or the state. Brinkley asserts that the hardest hit group was the middle-class, these were the independent merchants and owners of small businesses, office and industrial managers, and clerks. They previously possessed a job, earning enough income to own an automobile, a home, have money saved in a bank, and respected members of the community. Because of the G.D. most lost their jobs, taking part time work at lower wages. The independent merchants could not compete with the national chain stores, resulting in most having to close their stores. The banks were short on revenue and called in their debt, the middle-class unable to make payments on their mortgages or autos lost them. This was a time most banks declared bankruptcy and those depositors who had money in the bank lost their savings. The G.D. eliminated most of

While not immediately dangerous, the Great Depression took a toll on the way Americans’ lived their lives. Due to consumerism and risky stock market strategies, after the economy of the Roaring Twenties and WWI, rural Americans moved to the cites and the agricultural industry started to fail which was a major cause of the Great Depression, along with irresponsible bank structure. Life during this 10 year period of poor economy was tragic for nearly everyone, “three years after the crash, near thirty million Americans had lost their source of income…” (Gregory) Since most families did not have a source of income, they were forced to live in horrible conditions, starving themselves, and being unable to pay for many common necessities.

Ray Bradbury had once aforementioned,” You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. You just have to get people to stop reading them.” This is delineating the idea of burning intelligence, opinions, records, and thoughts. People are not immortal, but people are suddenly forced to depart Earth at one point, so they abandon something that is imperishable to the world, books. Thus, burning books, one human’s most common brainchild, creations, and possessions, would be a catastrophe. It would be the genesis of setting flames and committing arson to people. Although Ray Bradbury had not distinctly displayed the message in his words, he signified it as delivering teachings of wisdom will come to a conclusion. Also, Ray Bradbury depicts how culture and how it alters and impacts the principles of our life is significant.

The Great Depression was a very negative event in human history. The economy dropped, lifestyles were being ruined, and on top of that, the Dust Bowl wiped out crops for farmers and dried up everything. Throughout the novel, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck emphasizes how the Great Depression impacted everyone’s lives through their imagining of the perfect lifestyle, the bringing together of companions, and the struggle for survival. Steinbeck uses the characters’ dreams of the perfect lifestyle as a way to show how the Great Depression impacted their lives. Most people, during the Great Depression, fantasized about the perfect lifestyle and how they would live their life with no trouble.

The Great Depression affected a lot of Americans. This made the poor people poorer and the rich people poor. When the banks crashed everyone’s money was lost, years and years of hard work for only little money was lost. American’s lost their jobs when businesses cut back spending and production by 25%. People would have to move to Hooverville and build a house out of trash if they couldn’t

​1939 - Joined Laraine Day's Willshire Players Guild and acted in it for 2 years before quitting

The Western Industrial world was in one of the deepest and darkest times during the Great Depression. The Great Depression had started in the year of 1929 and lasted ten years, where it finally ended in the year 1939. This time had all started when the stock market had crashed in the year of 1929. When this occurred everyone started to panic because they knew that the investments and spending would decline tremendously. As these companies were taking hits they started to lay off their employees and then there was a rise in unemployment. By 1933, they had stated that anywhere from 13 to 15 millions of people were unemployed.

The Great Depression was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the western world (History Staff 1). Americans lost hope after the stockmarket crash that caused the Great Depression. The percentage of employment loss changed as the decade went by. Investors went bankrupt, banks failed, and factories were closed (Burg xvii). The involvement of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in The New Deal impacted the depression. The Great Depression portrays the loss of hope, the loss of employment, how the New Deal affected the depression, and the daring determination of a nation moving forward.

James E. Faust once said, “As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.” The great depression was an intense time of poverty and the biggest economic fall in American’s history. The great depression happened because of the stoke market crash on October 29,1929 in the United States during republican president Herbert Hoover and other leaders, which cause Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. By the time the stock market crushed, the ruin of the American economic system was revealed. This crash had a big affects throughout the rich people as well

The warnings that Ray Bradbury has given us has encouraged generations that read the novel to make a difference and to help prevent the given situations .As for our society we have done the complete opposite of message being portrayed. Instead of preventing the situations that cause an extinction in the novel , we continue to evolve with technology that is constantly dependent on .In the book we see two machines , one that slides into your stomach like a cobra and the other pumps your body that do a doctor's job. The novel shows how books are extinct and many people don’t care for them ,just like in our society many people don’t read and instead have a device to read to them .As time goes on our generations become more dependent on electronics

The Great Depression was the longest-lasting economic fall in the history of the Western industrialized world. The Great Depression affected many countries, for it was something the United States never thought would happen. In the United States, the Great Depression began after the stock market crashed in October 1929. The crash put Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the next several years, consumer purchases and investment dropped, causing declines in industrial output and rising levels in unemployment as falling companies laid off workers. By 1933, the Great Depression had reached its peak. By this time over 14 million Americans were unemployed and almost half of the country’s banks had failed. The Great Depression left a mark on many people 's lives. The Great Depression did not just affect one group of people but many. It affected everyone from women, men, to blacks, and whites. It was a disaster for everyone. Although the Great Depression was a hard time, Americans used different forms of media to distract themselves as much as possible. Radio and television played major parts in this distraction.

Have you ever felt jealous for something you didn't do? Ray Bradbury has a human feeling of jealousy in”all summer in a day”that the kids got jealous at Margo cause she got to see the sun and the other kids didn't. So the other kids locked Margo in the closet because they were jealous. Now the theme is everyone gets jealous for something so little.

What is normal? In “all summer in a day” by ray bradbury the kids throw margot in a closet-margot is a girl who has lived an earth longer than the other kids.