fiction." Novel: "Dandelion Wine" Ray Bradbury, Bantam publish. 1976. Please thesis statement: Summer a time joy Douglas (Spaulding) embraces nature, spends time family, experiences suspense magic Summer days.

Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine is a catalyst novel, written in such a manner that it allowed and encouraged the author to transcend memories and be sent back into past in times of summer. Bradbury's source of inspiration for the novel was his own childhood and the action in the story surrounds 12-year-old boy Douglas Spaulding living in a fictional small town in America. For Douglas, summer is a time of joy because he embraces nature, spends time with family, and experiences suspense and magic of summer days. In the following, we will address the experiencing of summer in the novel and ?the joy of embracing nature in summertime.

The summer of 1928 surprises Douglas while at his grandparents' house and it embellishes...
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