A lot of authors like to write dystopian novels. A lot of stories or poems written by Ray Bradbury are very dystopian. In “The Veldt”, the parents die. In “Wicked”, every happy mood you can think of, will find its way to become sad and gloomy. Both these poem and short story were written by a very famous author who go’s by the name of Ray Bradbury. In my opinion, “Wicked” is also dystopian. Since they have almost the same mood and tone, why not compare these two texts and see how they’re similar.
One of the similarities I noticed in “The Veldt”, and “Wicked”, was that, they’re both not very happy stories/poems. In the Veldt, the kids kill their parents. In wicked, Bradbury describes crystal water turning to dark. In the Veldt, the point at which the children snapped was when their parents didn’t let them take the rocket to New York. The kids here are symbolizing a threat. Why you may ask? Because something bad happened to them, now they’re mad and are planning on doing something unless they change their mind and give them what they want. The classic cause and effect of every book. This is obviously something bad. In “Wicked”, the first line in the first stanza says, “Crystal water turns to dark”. I mean come on. If that doesn’t scream horrible reality, I don’t know what does. These two texts are awfully similar. I’m guessing maybe because the author is the same person. Other novels or stories that Bradbury has written, such as “Fahrenheit 451” are all dystopian and sad. Maybe that just his style of writing.
So I think comparing these two texts because of the similarities I noticed between them, was a good idea. They were also very comparable because they both represent bad things happening. Is this Ray Bradbury’s style though? I think that it is. I don’t see why not. Dystopia and these types of moods are very fun to read and very fun to hear about, in a fiction way at least.
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