Dandelion Wine Lesson Plan

How does the structure of Dandelion Wine suit its subject matter?

Ask students to consider how the first quarter of the novel is structured: Bradbury shares a vignette surrounding one particular person in Green Town, often with Doug or Tom's peripheral involvement. When their story is finished, the Spaulding brothers discuss what they have witnessed, as though they themselves are the readers.

More significantly is how the inherently spotty nature of memory comes through with this structure. Have your students consider the way they remember their own summer vacations: it's likely they couldn't tell you what exactly happened on this or that specific day, but their minds...