Dandelion Wine Book Report

Book: Dandelion Wine

Author: Ray Bradbury

Length: 239 pages

Name: Sarah Weiler

Date: 10/11/2015

Dandelion Wine is written by Ray Bradury in which the main character, Douglas Spaulding is an unadaptable and imaginative 12-year-old boy. Douglas feels alive once Tom (his younger brother) attacks him. Doug learns many valuable lessons throughout his summer, things he would never forget. Doug learns that no one lives forever, this he learned from experiencing many deaths in town, including his own Great-grandmother. He learned that life does not always go according to plan, sometimes it takes you where you would least expect to go. Lastly, Doug learns that you have to cherish the moments you have in your life, because even he will have to die someday; sometimes you just have to stop and smell the roses. The novel is closed with the end of the climax; Douglas recovers after a long painful sickness that threatened his life, and made him look at things differently from then on.

In Dandelion Wine Douglas Spaulding matures a great deal from the beginning of the book to the end. Douglas is definitely a dreamer and it changes throughout the book about how he looks at things. All of the machines in the book have something in common; they all end up with a bad ending, this being said, Douglas after a while connects machines with sad endings. At the beginning of the novel, Doug seems happy and excited, by the middle of the novel, he is depressed, and by the end of the novel, he seems happy but not excited as he once was. By his experiences, he grew in maturity, by seeing death and by going through other situations.

Ray Bradbury’s moral of Dandelion Wine was that life doesn’t always go the way you want it to. He also taught us that life will have its ups and downs, but you still have to have hope or you will break. Dandelion Wine will make the readers smile, but it will also make the readers on edge, and frown, so it has various emotions. Dandelion Wine did not have much of a plot, but somehow Ray Bradbury made it complete. In addition, the climax came very late in the story. Although, this story has its flaws, overall it is a great novel to read.