There are many examples of defamiliarization in 's short story "." Some of
them are as follows.
a) "His wife paused...and watched the stove busy
humming to itself, making supper for four."
The stove here is some kind of high-tech gadget that cooks
automatically; but isn't every stove a gadget that "makes supper" for you? And don't
even regular stoves hum to themselves? Bradbury has forced us to look at stoves in a new
way.
b) "The house lights
followed...
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