Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury

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Something Wicked This Way Comes Summary

When Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show comes to Green Town, the book's protagonists, thirteenyear-old boys named Jim and Will, quickly discover that there is something evil riding with the carnival. A variety of frightening and bizarre transformations occur, many of them connected with the carnival's carousel. It seems to have the power to turn adults into children and children into adults. The novel is predominantly a frightening Gothic entertainment, but, on a...

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Ray Bradbury Biographies (4)

Ray Bradbury

2,195 words, approx. 8 pages

Ray Bradbury (born 1920) was among the first authors to combine the concepts of science fiction with a sophisticated prose style. Often described as economical yet poetic, Bradbury's fiction conveys a... Read more

Ray Bradbury

10,856 words, approx. 37 pages

Biography EssayAlthough Ray Bradbury remains perhaps the best known of all science-fiction writers, and although his stories and themes have permeated all areas of American culture as have those of no... Read more

Ray (Douglas) Bradbury

3,235 words, approx. 11 pages

Ray Bradbury is an interesting writer who has unjustly suffered from critical neglect. In a sense he has been the victim of a genre. To consider his work as "science fiction" or "fantasy"--no matter h... Read more

Ray (Douglas) Bradbury

11,679 words, approx. 39 pages

[This entry was updated by Gary K. Wolfe (Roosevelt University) from his entry in the Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, volume 6, pp. 16-33.]Although Ray Bradbury remains perhaps the ... Read more

Essays & Analysis (4)

The Theme of Youth in Part One of 'Something Wicked This Way Comes'

274 words, approx. 1 pages

THE THEME OF YOUTH IN "ARRIVALS" I think a prevailing theme in the section that we read was youth, and the loss of youth.  There are young characters in this book, and there are old characters. ... Read more

Response to Part 2 of "Something Wicked This Way Comes"

229 words, approx. 1 pages

The Importance of Charles Halloway in "Pursuits" Charles Halloway becomes a major character in Part 2 of the novel. It is his bravery that saves Will and Jim several times from the evil of the carniv... Read more

The Weapons of Good Used Against Evil in "Something Wicked This Way Comes"

324 words, approx. 2 pages

The Weapons of Good Used Against Evil In the third part of Something Wicked This Way Comes, the evil forces behind Cooger and Dark's evil carnival are finally defeated. They are done in by Charles Ha... Read more

Something Wicked This Way Comes: Charles Halloway Analysis

780 words, approx. 3 pages

Heroes come in many forms, and not all heroes come in Marvel Comics. The novel Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury contains a character named Charles Halloway. Charles Halloway,... Read more

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