The Illustrated Man By: Ray Bradbury

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The Illustrated Man

By: Ray Bradbury

Three of the short stories in The Illustrated Man, By Ray Bradbury were "Zero Hour," " The Last Night of the World," and " The Long Rain. There are many similarities and many differences in the three. In the three stories as well as in a lot of the stories in The Illustrated Man, all of the tails have the same style of the way it's written as well as the endings.

Characters- In all three stories there is two characters are main characters that talk throughout the whole story. The last night of the world was a conversation between a husband and his wife. As in Zero Hour the two were a daughter and her mother and in the long rain it was two men that were good friends. Even though there were two characters in each story, their characteristics were very different.

The last night of the world as said was a conversation between a husband and his wife throughout the whole story. There was no conflict or argument of any kind. They talked very formal and rationally. They discussed a dream they both had a long with the rest of the world that the world was coming to an end that night. The two of them had talked about how they would keep everything normal until it had ended. However, in the other two there were a lot of disagreements.

Especially, in Zero Hour, which was the mother and her daughter. The daughter, Mink Moris, had created a game along with the other young children. The mother, Mrs. Moris didn't like how Mink was always playing this game which all seemed that her imagination had gotten to her because it involved Martians.

Plot- The Plot seemed to have...