Jonas, the maybe magical and certainly mysterious town junkman who heals Douglas when he is ill.ĭandelion Wine reads quickly but offers much worth dwelling on. Like so many of Ray Bradbury’s novels, Dandelion Wine is episodic, essentially a collection of stories many of which can stand alone. Douglas features in many of these stories, but several stories feature other characters, among them: Leo Auffmann, who attempts to build a happiness machine Helen Loomis, who is 95 and never married, but shares a mutual admiration with the much younger Bill Forester and Mr. Douglas’s summer is a time of brightness and joy to be cherished, but still, by its end he has transformed himself, having struggled with issues of identity, age, fear, and mortality. This is the first of many revelations Douglas will have over the course of the summer. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!” In the first few pages of the novel Douglas Spaulding, the twelve-year-old protagonist, is stuck by the alarming thought that he is alive, “I’m really alive! he thought.
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