Hello!!This is a thread about a story called "Kaleidoscope" by Ray Bradbury, if you are interested open it!

First I'm going to talk a little about the author:

Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th- and 21st-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres including fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery fiction.

Bradbury was mainly known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his science fiction and horror story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and I Sing the Body Electric! (1969).

Most of his best-known work is in fantasy fiction, but he also wrote in other genres, such as the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). Many of his works were adapted into television and film.

What is Kaleidoscope about?

This story tells how a spaceship is hit by a meteorite, causing astronauts to be thrown into the void and scatter in various directions, moving away from each other forever. They will only be able to hear their voices through the radio. They all know they are going to die.

Ray Bradbury focused on a poetics of the human being, his stories were full of reflections on the alienation and isolation of individuals.

Few editors understood his style, which frequently lacked action, paid little attention to scientific rigor and did not seek easy entertainment, and whose main concern was what was happening inside its protagonists.

His stories were focused on the characters, but precisely by moving away from the canon, he ended up having a loyal and enthusiastic audience.

Bradbury teaches us certain thoughts that tear Hollis, the protagonist, and man in general.

Much more than the bad things in life or meteorites, which tear it apart little by little. Thoughts like the desire to make up for a terrible and empty life, to repair the meanness of so many years by doing something valid. Something that would make him a different man, full.

My opinion about this story:

The reading was very entertaining, I really liked it, it was very quick to read and I finished it without realizing it, it really caught me.

It made me think about typical thoughts of my day and I realized that it is good to reflect from time to time that perhaps we do not have all the time in the world, and that the future is uncertain, we cannot control it, no matter how many plans we make life is "now".

We must be proud of the decisions that make us happy and that will always give us beautiful memories. And you, have you spent your life thinking about your future? Are you happy?

Sources:

http://beatrizcortel.es/calidoscopio-de-ray-bradbury-1951-un-cuento-terrible-y-bello/#:~:text=Solo%20un%20autor%20como%20Bradbury,espacio%20hacia%20una%20muerte%20segura.

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