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=**Semster 2-1**=

__**Blog: 1**__ __**1-24-11**__
 * __The Illustrated Man By: Ray Bradbury__**

__The Illustrated Man__ by Ray Bradbury is a book that I've read several times before. The first time that I read it was years ago, and it was because it was recommended to me by my father, whom I share a similar love of books with. The genera of the book is science fiction, which is different than what I was used to then, but, I figured that if my dad liked it, then I would probably like it too. When I began to read the book, I found that it was a collection of short stories by the author, but it began with a prologue that depicted the narrator of the story meeting a man with an interesting problem. The man was out of work, but that was the least of his worries. He had a collection of beautifully tattoos all over his body. All brilliant works of art. As the two begin to get to know each other, the man tells the narrator that the tattoos move at night, depicting several different stories, simultaneously, all over him. The narrator, against the warnings of the illustrated man, watches the depicted stories, and this is the basis for all of the short stories in the book. The first short story in the book is called "The Veldt". It's about a family that lives in a home that does everything for them. The two children in the story, a boy and a girl, have taken to practically living in their nursery, and I don't blame them. The nursery is a mechanical wonder. It tunes into the childrens' minds and depicts what they imagine onto the walls of the nursery, so that they can live in their own fantasies. But what they've been imagining lately has been the same thing, over and over again. A baking hot African veldt, and a repeating scene of lions hunting and eating some poor souls. The parents of the children are worried, and want to shut the nursery down, and, after contacting and scheduling an appointment with their family psychologist, decide that it would be the best thing to do. But the children have a nasty surprise for their parents in the supposedly harmless nursery. They lock their parents in the nursery, and let their imagined lions tear them to shreds. Or, at least, that's what it seems. You never really do find out what really happens.