In the Veldt, Ray Bradbury uses similes to create images in the reader's mind, and to better explain the story. In the beginning, the author uses similes to show what the sun was like when the children, Wendy and Peter, spent too much time in Africa. In the middle, the author uses similes to deepen in how the children felt as they walked through the mystery door, finding the things that they created with their minds. Throughout the end of the story, Bradbury uses similes to demonstrate what the nursery is doing, and how it is formed from Peter and Wendy’s minds. Initially, the Hadley family looked inside the nursery, suggesting a psychologist should look at it. It was silent. Surrounded with blank walls, and two dimensional. Ray Bradbury
