https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q In order to start thinking about Ray Bradbury's style of writing and to practice our skills of world building, your bookclub group will collate a series of images, phrases and single words that could be used to create a world that would exist in a Bradbury novel or short story. You can use language you locate in his short stories, or imaginative, inferred language that you come up with as a group. Post your findings in the Padlet with the usual rules (name, appropriateness, not too long!). en-us 2018-10-20 07:32:58 UTC 2023-01-28 06:56:58 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Simplehouse.png https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295251364 An eerie, dark autumn night, lit only by the occasional glow of uncertain street lights.
"a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years" (The October Game)]]> 2018-10-21 23:54:33 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295251364 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295251592 An oncoming bank of dark, grey, ominous clouds, heavy with the weight of a million drops.]]> 2018-10-21 23:56:39 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295251592 tristan_rollond https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295251593 Flickering lighting cast by an oil lamp.]]> 2018-10-21 23:56:39 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295251593 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295251631 "There was no green of Spring, none of the freshness, none of the promise."]]> 2018-10-21 23:57:08 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295251631 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295251648 'The ceiling above them became a deep sky with a hot yellow sun.']]> 2018-10-21 23:57:15 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295251648 tristan_rollond https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295251788 Shadowy corners of the hardly lit room.]]> 2018-10-21 23:58:42 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295251788 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295251789 He nodded slowly, quietly, emotionlessly.]]> 2018-10-21 23:58:42 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295251789 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295251982 A quiet environment, where the only sounds that come are loud and jutting in the silence.]]> 2018-10-22 00:00:07 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295251982 tristan_rollond https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295252031 A communal area with one or two people awake, making an almost dead . An eerie atmosphere of silence.]]> 2018-10-22 00:00:35 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295252031 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295252161 2018-10-22 00:01:49 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295252161 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295252163 Very descriptive:
The hot straw smell of lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden water hole, the great rusty smell of animals, the smell of dust like red paprika in the air. ]]> 2018-10-22 00:01:50 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295252163 tristan_rollond https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295252174 Dark areas with stark contrast in lights and sounds giving an angry glare onto the scene. Friendly objects with a dark side.]]> 2018-10-22 00:01:54 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295252174 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295252214 A taste of dust upon the air, slightly clammy, as though the room has not been cleaned for a while. Left to deteriorate slowly.]]> 2018-10-22 00:02:20 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295252214 tristan_rollond https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295252273 A happy environment with a secret to hold, such as the "Happy Life Home," in The Velt, or the warm halloween ready house in The October Game]]> 2018-10-22 00:02:51 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295252273 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295252485 He knew it before he went in. He knew there was death in the house. It was that kind of silence.]]> 2018-10-22 00:04:32 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295252485 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295252531 A gentle rustle of dry, papery leaves, clapping together in the harsh veldtland.]]> 2018-10-22 00:04:49 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295252531 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295253019 The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk."

]]> 2018-10-22 00:08:10 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295253019 tristan_rollond https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295253244 Imperfect adjectives like matted and dusty to let the scene seem real and uncomfortable.]]> 2018-10-22 00:09:33 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295253244 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295253504 "a smell of damp cement", cold, musty, clammy, airless, decrepit]]> 2018-10-22 00:11:21 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295253504 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295253555 There are often small comments about the character's surroundings which reflect on the character itself, or the mood.

"The house was silent with preparation" but it doesn't specify preparation for what.]]> 2018-10-22 00:11:46 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295253555 tristan_rollond https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295253680 "Outside this warm two-story house"]]> 2018-10-22 00:12:47 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295253680 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295253811 It ran down the valley like any other road, between slopes of barren, stony ground and live oak trees. ]]> 2018-10-22 00:13:50 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295253811 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295775062 Bradbury's short stories almost always includes the idea of death.]]> 2018-10-23 03:45:31 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295775062 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295775159 Bradbury often begins his stories with a sinister action or in a sinister setting to engage the reader. For example, pulling guns out of drawer, setting things on fire and time travelling to the past to shoot animals, etc. ]]> 2018-10-23 03:46:04 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295775159 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295775329 Twisted, knotted trees, mirroring the twisted nature of the murders that are committed in Bradbury's stories.]]> 2018-10-23 03:47:20 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295775329 tristan_rollond https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295775528 Not really world building, but should be in third person.]]> 2018-10-23 03:48:46 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295775528 tristan_rollond https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295775607 If it is historical, the imperfections in the hand crafted good and the inconsistency of the past.]]> 2018-10-23 03:49:19 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295775607 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295775623 The endings are often ironic and the outcome is inferential, but clear, except the ending never directly says what happened.]]> 2018-10-23 03:49:26 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295775623 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295776136 charred ruin of a little white house at the end of the dirt road. ]]> 2018-10-23 03:52:50 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295776136 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295776169 Bleak, smoggy, smoky, dreary, grim, gaunt, ]]> 2018-10-23 03:53:06 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295776169 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295776255 The contents of a lot of his stories are also his projections of the future if current issues remain unresolved.]]> 2018-10-23 03:54:01 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/79k6v9mh6s4q/wish/295776255