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Imagery In Ray Bradbury's The Fog Horn
Alternatively, Ray Bradbury’s imagination also appears in “The Fog Horn.” Bradbury has his own style of imagery and the way he bring it to life. For instance, Bradbury states, “I’ll make a voice that is like an empty bed besides you all night long, and like an empty house when you open the door, and like the trees in autumn with no leaves. A sound like the birds flying south, crying, and a sound like November wind and the sea on the hard, cold shore” (grammarpunk.com), this is a representation of a human’s soul, his heart or the inner self. The voice has a symbolic meaning; it stands for one’s desire of another, the significance one. His use of simile to give life to a voice is creative and unique. As the quotes resembling everything that

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