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The novel Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury deals very much with memory and life. Bradbury uses many things throughout the story to communicate this. A key method that he uses in this novel for symbolism is embodying ideas in machines. Bradbury uses machines in Dandelion Wine to communicate the motifs of this story. The main ideas of this story include memory, age, struggle for happiness, and the acception of life and death. Bradbury portrays the motifs through machines to emphasize key points of the story. The machines in the Dandelion Wine serve more than one function; both practical and symbolic. Although the machines in the novel are all used to reflect some image of the stories main ideas, some also have practical use which then emphasizes their symbolic meaning. Also, the machines are not all physical contraptions. Although some of the machines are based on mechanical devises, others are simply contrived by the author. Established by characters' actions and the way they are perceived by other characters. The characters use their knowledge and wisdom to pass on experiences and memories. The machines have some sort of goal, or intention and In turn helping others come to realizations of life. The machines in Dan