The Illustrated Man Analysis

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Judging The Book By Its Cover Many say that you should not judge a book by it’s cover, but when you see the many covers for Ray Bradbury’s “The illustrated Man” you cannot help but be drawn in. Ray Bradbury’s stories are very unique and eccentric and include many looks into what he believed would be the future. Ray Bradbury engulfs the reader with his vivid words. In “The Illustrated Man”, Bradbury creates worlds inside the mind of the reader. His short stories throw the reader into a trance by the characters situation, taking the ordinary and transforming it into a bizarre scenario. Bradbury goes to the very edge to accomplish his task in reaching the limits of the ordinary. The three covers that I have picked that best describe the stories…show more content…
It appears that he is looking out onto a vast desert with nothing but massive hills of dirt. This draws the reader in because of the openness of what the reader is looking at. The tattoos are very intricate and unfold different stories upon each other. The cover brings the stories and the lessons in a single picture just the art and how dark and imperial the art is. This ties in with the stories and how dark and mysterious they are, the cover explains that what you’re about to unravel is twisted and…show more content…
The covers tie into the stories as they do with describing the book. The stories such as, “The Veldt” expresses such shadiness and gloom as the children, known for innocence, betrays the parents by taking the idea of authority and destroying it in such an ill manner. Also, in “Marionettes, Inc.” Where the futuristic idea of robots being cloned, and able to run a household as if they’re actual human beings with beating hearts. In the end of the story is shows the obscurity of the robot sticking the human being his actual clone, into a box and locking it thus he cannot escape. This takes an idea about robots running the near future and butchering the idea of them becoming a part of every day routine and making humans feel as if the robots cannot be trusted leading many to question what is about to come along with the ideas of the

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