In Illinois, on August 22, 1920, Ray Bradbury was born. Ray showed promise as a writer from and early age, when he began writing short stories. As a child, he was fascinated by magic and fantasy and spent many days dreaming that he would grow to be some sort of magician or something along those lines. Bradbury first wrote, "Holler Bochen's Dilemma," which was printed in 1938 in an amateur fan magazine. He went on to publish his …showed first 75 words of 1269 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1269 total…the destruction of the city and the victory of the intellectuals in hiding. Ray uses the image of the phoenix rises out of the rubble of the city to allude to the reemergence of "humanity". I really enjoyed reading this book. It made for some very interesting reading. Bradbury showed how important our freedom is and that we must maintain it so that what happened in this book cannot happen to us all one day.