Something Wicked This Way Comes | Topics for Discussion
1. What is the significance of the salesman who comes to sell Jim and Will a lightning rod at the beginning of the novel?
2. Jim and Will realize the wicked nature of the carnival. Why is Charlie, Will's father, the only other character who understands the danger?
3. Some of the characters are named for traits which they embrace. List some of these people and explain why they are named as they are.
4. What is the significance of the lightning rod? Why is it "finely scratched and etched with strange languages, names that could tie the tongue or break the jaw,...
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