https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq 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 07:48:51 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/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295251457 - Single words - malicious, pitch-black, darkness, sinister, frozen, isolated - foreshadows horrifying events

- Seasons: Autumn symbolises darkness and Spring symbolises happiness/a sense of joy.]]> 2018-10-21 23:55:28 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295251457 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295251480 Words: dark,silent,cold. These words are used to describe the mood of the place and certain places. They are also repeated throughout the text.
Quotes: "warm two story house"
"There was no green of spring, none of the freshness"
"into the dark cellar"
"dark pumpkin-lighted house"
"empty and silent"]]> 2018-10-21 23:55:40 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295251480 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295251507 Use of seasons to add atmosphere to the world
"Ever since he first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees"


]]> 2018-10-21 23:55:57 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295251507 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295251578 "soft automaticity"
"purr and recede into crystalline distance"

]]> 2018-10-21 23:56:35 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295251578 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295251590 "By the sound of the children you knew the calendar day. By their screams you knew what evening it was. You knew it was late in the year. October. The last day of October, with white bone masks and cut pumpkins and the smell of dropped candle fat."
"But tonight all the world was burning down into ruin. There was no green of spring, none of the freshness, none of the promise."
"A rich syrupy smell of candy filled the bustling house."
"The house was silent with preparation."

]]> 2018-10-21 23:56:38 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295251590 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295252167 "hidden odorophonics were beginning to blow a wind of odor at the two people in the middle of the baked veldtland"
He uses a different word to describe "hot".
He is focused on the temperature of the room, and makes this one of the central focuses, which he then uses to set the scene for things to come. 
"odorophonics" isn't a dictionary defined word, but rather one that Bradbury has made up, meaning a system capable of reproducing selected scents to fool the human nervous system.
Focuses on smell and temperature, as opposed to what one may be able to see.]]> 2018-10-22 00:01:53 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295252167 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295252229 Vivid verbs: bustling, peering, "blue eyes smiled"
His use of vivid verbs and connotations allows the world to be brought to life without the use of "boring" descriptions]]> 2018-10-22 00:02:30 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295252229 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295252262 Quotes:
-  "crystal witch"
- "empty"
- "shadow flickering"
- "none of the freshness" - since there is no freshness it means that something is rotting, and everything is dying, which foreshadows the death of a character.
- "shapeless"

His use of words such as 'witch', 'empty' and 'shadow', create a world and sense of negativity, wickedness and abnormality. It is implied that something is wrong.

Bradbury foreshadows quite a lot in his texts.]]> 2018-10-22 00:02:45 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295252262 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295253048 2018-10-22 00:08:23 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295253048 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295253216 "wonderful wailing" This is an odd combination of words, perhaps used to create intrigue.
"The room was black, black. Not a light, not a shine, not a blink of an eye." This paints a picture of the scene below, and makes people question whether this scene could be real, as it is not often that anything is "black, black"]]> 2018-10-22 00:09:23 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295253216 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295253511 The quote "dark cellar" could describe the picture below.


]]> 2018-10-22 00:11:25 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295253511 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295253785 This could be used to show a world where technology has taken over the minds of the people]]> 2018-10-22 00:13:40 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295253785 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295253800 This scene is described in `The October Game' Halloween.]]> 2018-10-22 00:13:47 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295253800 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295253873 "Crystal witch over over the caramel brew bubbling like a prehistoric mudpot on the stove."
"Life belowstairs had resumed, as life in a jungle must resume once a terror has passed on away and the antelope return to their spring."
"dark pumpkin-lighted house"
"empty and silent in the cadle shine."
"the smell of damp cement"
"the wind out in the October stars."
"The room was black black. Not a light, not a shine, not the glint of an eye."]]> 2018-10-22 00:14:12 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295253873 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295253916 Many Metaphors:

"delicate watchmaker's claws"
"Each lower leg was a piston"
"thick ropes of muscle"
"sheathed over in a gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior."

]]> 2018-10-22 00:14:36 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295253916 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295253966 Eriee
Candle-lit
Sinsiter
Sickly sweet
Terror
Darkness
Horror
Technology overtaking the world
moon-lit
Lightning and thunder
Silent
Cold
Obsessions
Love and hate
Anger
Futuristic
The streets of New York ran with anger as the rain poured down hate, covering the people, buildings and cars with a glistening sheen of doubt.]]> 2018-10-22 00:15:02 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295253966 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295775059 An example of a dark, empty room in Bradbury's world. ]]> 2018-10-23 03:45:31 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295775059 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295775500 Empty
Silent
Odorophonics
Automaticity
Empty
Silent
Dank

]]> 2018-10-23 03:48:37 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295775500 https://padlet.com/abby_davey1/ztr57vg0d1hq/wish/295775686 "jerked angrily"
"pronounced this verdict quietly"
"cried" used to express how someone said something multiple times in 'The Sound of Thunder'.
"mouth trembled, asking"
"pleaded to the world"

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