"He stepped into Africa. How many times in the last year did he had he opened this door and found Wonderland, Alice, and Mock Turtle, or Aladdin and his Magic Lamp, or Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz, or Dr. Doolittle, or the cow jumping over a very real-appearing moon-all the delightful contraptions of a make-believe world. He often had seen Pegasus flying in the sky ceiling, or seen fountains of red fireworks, or heard angel voices singing
. But now, is yellow hot Africa, this bake oven with murder in the air."
This quote is very appealing to me in this story because it's like a contrast from what the children should be imagining to what they should not be imagining. It's almost like this is a slight twist in the story that the children would even imagine such a harsh place with lions that could potentially hurt their parents and not know any better. I feel like this is a powerful quote because it establishes all these nice places and good stories that the parents would expect of their children. "The angel voices singing" was so magical and mysterious and I felt it was very gentle and defiantly a good thing to hear. The sudden change to the "yellow, hot Africa" turned the paragraph into a daunting fate and even foreshadowed the future of the parents ultimate fate.
Bradbury, Ray. The Illustrated Man. (New York: Bantam Spectra Double day, 1951), Page 11
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