weekly review

This week i have read 2 very interesting pieces of writing from Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451 and Golden Kite Silver Wind. while reading, i have noticed some similarities and differences from these two works. one similarity that stands out the most is that both stories play with the stereotypes of the culture it is describing. he describes Americans as an lazy nation which does not want the complexity of reading and falls within the grasps of television. similarly, in Golden Kite Silver Wind, he describes Asians as a culture that believes heavily on omens and signs. Both stereotypes are true to an extent, like how we think of Americans as couch potatoes and the fact that in Taiwan, people don't use the number four just because it sounds like death, but Bradbury greatly exaggerates them to make it more obvious.