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Compare And Contrast Roald Dahl And Ray Bradbury
So in this essay I will be talking about how Roald dahl and ray bradbury are alike.How are roald dahl and Ray Bradbury alike? Well they are very good at making things without thought or emotions seem like they do. For example Roald dahl made it seem like the landlady's dog and bird were alive. She treated them like real living things , he made that seem very real. And Ray made it seem like the whole house was alive . For example Ray said said on there will come soft rains” the clock sang” or “robot mice darted”.So that is why I think they are alike in writing their stories.

What is roald dahl like? Well to state he is very different he thinks very unusually and at the end of his book you never fully understand what you just read.He wrote a

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