Prologue “First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Not that all months aren’t rare. But there be bad and good, as the pirates say. Take September, a bad month: school begins. Consider August, a good month: school hasn’t begun yet. July, well, July’s really fine: there’s no chance in the world…
Category: Bradbury
Every Aspiring Writer Should Study Ray Bradbury Who Was Much More Than the Father of Sci-Fi
Years ago, I watched the movie Something Wicked This Way Comes, and I was stunned by the brilliance of Ray Bradbury’s writing. Although many people only know Ray Bradbury as the Father of Sci-Fi and the author of The Martian Chronicles or other futuristic or alien-like stories. Bradbury was foremost a writer about people and…
Juxtaposition in Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes
juxtaposition “an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. the state of being close together or side by side.” dictionary.com René Magritte was a famous surrealist painter who juxtaposed dissimilar items in the same painting. In his famous painting “The Son of Man,” he juxtaposed an…
What Is Intuition & How Does It Help Us Create?
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free” – Michelangelo – In the above words, Michelangelo has described how intuition helped him sculpt. Michelangelo was a famous artist during the Italian Renaissance. He was commissioned by Pope Julius II to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel between the…
What Is Foreshadowing?
Foreshadowing is a hint of what is to come later in any of several types of literature. In Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury harnesses foreshadowing several times. “The seller of lightning-rods arrived just ahead of the storm.” – Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes. Chapter 1, First Sentence. In the first sentence of…
Something Wicked This Way Comes Chapter 4 – Cigar Store, Barber Shop, & A Whiff of Cotton Candy
For this post, I’ll be quoting from the following edition of Ray Bradbury’s masterful novel Something Wicked This Way Comes: Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes. Large Print edition, Center Point Publishing, 2000. The page numbers will be different if you are reading from another edition of the book. The first 3 chapters of Something Wicked…
Something Wicked This Way Comes Chapter 3
For this post, I’ll be quoting from the following edition of Ray Bradbury’s masterful novel Something Wicked This Way Comes: Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes. Large Print edition, Center Point Publishing, 2000. The page numbers will be different if you are reading from another edition of the book. Will and Jim as a Pair–Two Boys…
Something Wicked This Way Comes Chapter 2 and Autumn: Seasons of Life
For this post, I’ll be quoting from the following edition of Ray Bradbury’s masterful novel Something Wicked This Way Comes: Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes. Large Print edition, Center Point Publishing, 2000. The page numbers will be different if you are reading from another edition of the book. Something Wicked This Way Comes…
Something Wicked This Way Comes Chapter 1 Arrivals – Characters
Let’s Look at the Characters in Chapter 1 of Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes. For this post, I’ll be quoting from the following edition of Ray Bradbury’s masterful novel Something Wicked This Way Comes: Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes. Large Print edition, Center Point Publishing, 2000. The page numbers will be…
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
In my opinion, EVERY writer should read Ray Bradbury and Mark Twain. Those two guys seem to have born few resemblances. They lived in different periods of time and they wrote differently, but these two guys were alike in that they are masters of words, and if a writer is not a master of words,…