Dandelion Wine: Douglas
In the book, Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury uses the character, Douglas, as a model of himself and to portray the feelings he once felt. While all of this seems great, he manages to entangle a haunting past that every one person in Green Town, Illinois must learn to let go of.
No matter how old we are, a piece of our past stays with us forever. When we were little, we had no cares, so the life we lived seemed so innocent. As we fall closer and closer to this wall we must climb; this wall that is ever so high, and ever so slick; we lose a little of the child within us. This wall, or barrier we must breach, is no more than a simple introduction. An introduction to the first day of the ...
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and then it may leave you or fail you but then something new and exciting comes along. This too may bore you or even fail you. All throughout that summer, Douglas sees each cycle for what it really is- real life, not magic.
Doug has to go through many things to be officially initiated into maturity. He goes through the gradual process but finally reaches an all new understanding of life.
Doug feels that everything can be controlled through his own magic. It’s because he’s still a little boy with a wild imagination, that he believes this. At the beginning of the summer, he has still not gone through the initiation. “There, and there. Now over there, and here….” “Yellow squares were cut in the dim morning earth as house lights winked slowly on. A sprinkle of windows came suddenly alight miles off in dawn country.” Through magic, Douglas wakes the small town in Illinois from its pre-summer slumber. This starts off his summer as usual, with his own inner magic. “ ‘Everyone ...
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Everyone is brought into adulthood through different ways but until we realize that it’s there, we never really mind how close it lingers. “Shut up! Douglas wanted to yell. But no, the yell would scare the echoes and run the thing away.” Douglas still feels a feeling of indecisiveness when it comes to losing his innocence and realizing that he’s alive and he now must make sure to see everything is this new way. This new way of noticing is something that Douglas thinks is just a new way of feeling alive, but in reality, it’s his mature side shining through and enlightening the senses. “The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched ...
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