Dec 29, 2009

Something Wicked This Way Comes | Something Wicked This Way Comes

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Author: Ray Bradbury
First Published: 1962
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Fantasy
Time of Work: A week before one Halloween in the early 1930’s
Setting: Green Town, Illinois
Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Supernatural, Midwest, 1920’s, 1930’s, Good and evil, Small-town life, Youth, Circuses or carnivals, Boys, Aging, Illinois, Tattoos
Locales: Green Town, IL

Characters Discussed

Will Halloway, a boy of almost fourteen, born one minute before midnight on October 30. He is the best friend of Jim Nightshade. The less adventuresome of the two, he is frightened by the hypnotically attractive carnival that appears in Green Town, Illinois, just before Halloween. He is still very much a young boy, in contrast to Jim. His experience with the evil Cooger and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show helps to teach him about the value of friendship, the importance of his father, and the nature of evil. He brings down the wrath of Cooger and Dark by...

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Something Wicked This Way Comes | Something Wicked This Way Comes

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Characters Discussed

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