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Graphic Story: The Flying Machine By Ray Bradbury
When you hear the word graphic what do you think of, well it could be pictures, people fighting, or emotions. The graphic story that i'm referring to is a short story called The Flying Machine written by Ray Bradbury. Reading The Flying Machine as a graphic story has its advantages and disadvantages.

The advantages or reading a short story as a graphic novel. On page 119 of the flying machine there is a boy flying, a servant who is looking at him, and emperor who is looking the other way. The graphic is giving you an image of what the servants reaction was and the emperor's reaction, this is one advantage. In the picture you can also see the backgrounds and setting of the story which gives you a more vivid image of what it looked like. The

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