One Timeless Spring

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Your full name Teacher's name English Essay 07/10/2011 When you give children little information their minds tend to go crazy and explore all options they can create, in this case Douglas ventured into the growing process of the human body. The topic of discussion within this essay will be One Timeless Spring, by Ray Bradbury. The prime issue within this story is Douglas’s belief of individuals poisoning him, the setting highlights how he’s changing in an interesting light, and there are as little as four characters that help with the evidence of Douglas’s misguidance. His parents, teachers, food, and girls are his main sources of poison he’s established. The setting within this short story was outstanding due to the obvious relations you can determine with the story line and the objectives in the setting. Lastly, the characters enforce the reasoning behind Douglas’s thoughts in a more evidentially light. This essay relatively explains why his thoughts are this way and why his thoughts aren’t entirely accurate. Douglas attempted to restrain himself of doing most things productive due to his belief of these things being poisonous. He believes this poison will alter the way he is and make him change and/or grow taller, which is what it’ll do but not in the negative sense Douglas is projecting. He refuses to eat the food his parents make in result of this belief of his. Being educated is also considered a poison, reading, mathematics, all the basic stuff. The young boy is also trying to detour away all sources of candy assuming it’s a deadly poison, but he does however consume a few candies along this journey. Lastly, he finds himself falling for a girl and allowing her poisonous lips to meet his. He then goes on and rants about how he’s lost and no longer fighting this war. He’s given himself up in a battle to a young girl he just couldn’t resist. Although
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