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This paper uses three examples from three of the short stories in Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man to show how consumerism affects people's lives. In two of the examples given, people become greedy and desirous of consumer goods for the sake of owning them. This has negative affects on these individuals. In the third example, a father buys an old rocket in order to give his children a once in a lifetime chance to "travel" through the universe, thus providing an example of using a consumer good in a positive way.

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The Effects of Consumerism in Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man is a collection of short stories gathered together under the guise of describing the many different tattooed people on the title character, the Illustrated Man's, body. One of the threads that connects these short stories in the theme of consumerism in the imagined worlds Bradbury creates. Consumerism implies the purchasing of new items, be they home goods, technology, clothing, transportation vehicles, for the sake of owning the object itself; in other words, people don't always buy items because they need them, but often because they want them and the act of purchasing and owning things

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