Ray Bradbury 2

Despite Ray Bradbury’s classification as a science fiction writer, much of his writing relates to the past and his feelings about it. Although he does criticize the society in which he lives in many books, Bradbury also shows a positive feeling for the world. It is not however the world of the future that he shows hope for, as many futuristic writers do. In many of his works he refers back to the time …

…presence of imagery and references to his childhood and youth. Nostalgia for this innocent time of the past is evident in some works, while descriptions of how change had come were included in others. In Bradbury’s writing there can be found not only a reflection of society at the time, but of all of the memories and lessons he learned from the past, and some of the hopes that he had for the future.