This document discusses the theme, types of conflicts, and examples of figurative language in literature. It then presents a student's tentative thesis on Ray Bradbury's novel Dandelion Wine, which is about a boy coming of age over one summer. The thesis is supported in three sentences: 1) The theme is about a boy becoming a man during a summer of his youth. 2) Bradbury uses poetic figurative language. 3) The symbols reflect the life of the boy and his town. The document provides homework instructions to further develop the thesis in a journal entry.