Dandelion Wine

1. Dandelion Wine

Ray Bradbury

2. About the novel

• Was written in 1957
• The story took place in 1928
• Based on the Bradbury’s childhood
• Wine made of dandelions as a metaphor

3. Main characters

• Douglas Spaulding the protagonist of the
novel
• Tom Spaulding Douglas' younger
brother
• Charlie - A friend of
Douglas and Tom

4. The main ideas

• Childhood is a sort of something magic
• Life is in a very simple way inseparable from death
• Everything in life is happy
• Everything is changing

5. Dandelion as a symbol of life itself