When was the last time you took the time out to go out to a restaurant and eat just to have a nice conversation with your parents rather than sending them a text or calling them? We live in a period where technology is replacing face-to-face social interaction and is leaving a gap between the real world and the virtual world. The encounter of technology has always been a big topic in Ray Bradbury’s writing. In the “Fog Horn” Ray Bradbury manifests through the characters of McDunn and a sea creature that the side effects of technology lead to loneliness, resulting in destruction and anger.
To begin, we are set in a background with an eerie lighthouse which is meant to portray loneliness and confinement. For example, the story starts, “OUT there in the cold water, far from land.” Shortly after, Bradbury expresses the mindsets of the characters as “Feeling like two birds in the grey sky” (Bradbury p.1). These …show more content…
At this moment of the story it explains a duel action for both the sea monster and McDunn to face loneliness head on and shows the feedback on how the both acknowledge it. The narrator informs us the moment of McDunn’s action, “The ensuing minute of silence was so intense that we could hear our hearts pounding in the glassed area of the tower, could hear the slow greased turn of the light.” (Bradbury, p.4) to his experiment can be argued in two different ways for an example when silencing the fog horn he was trying to aid the sea monster by force feeding the monster the truth that it is alone and it should give in on the dream of another one of its kind, or McDunn wants the monster accept his loneliness in the world and with that you can compare it to the acceptance of McDunn’s loneliness in the light