Ray Bradbury – Something Wicked This Way Comes – Chapter 3

Work Cited Bradbury, Ray. “Prologue.” Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel, Reprint, Simon and Schuster, 2017. *****************************************************, Chapter 3 You can read Chapter 3, in its entirety, at the end of the post.  Watching the boys vanish away, Charles Halloway suppressed a sudden urge to run with them, make the pack. He knew what the…

How to Use Color-Coded Book Tags to Annotate & Tag a Book

You can Buy Golcellia Transparent Sticky Notes Tabs at Amazon – Link In the above post, I tell you that I use different color book tabs to designate various information. When I see an important quote, I designate that with purple tabs. [You could use any color for that]. When themes are mentioned, I use…

Ray Bradbury – Something Wicked This Way Comes – Chapter 2

Work Cited Bradbury, Ray. “Prologue.” Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel, Reprint, Simon and Schuster, 2017. *****************************************************, The entire second chapter of Something Wicked This Way Comes is at the end of this post. Before I start talking about chapter 2, I want to say a few words about the themes in Something Wicked This…

How to Make A Book or Reading Journal – Free Sample Pages

Daily Journal Pages to Track Your Reading Progress for the Day Weekly Journal Pages to Track Your Reading Progress for the Week. It’s Good to Assess Your Reading  Progress Periodically – A Weekly Check is Good.  Monthly Journal Pages to Track Your Reading Progress for the Month. We’ll Finish Reading Something Wicked This Way Comes…

Ray Bradbury – Something Wicked This Way Comes – Chapter 1

Work Cited Bradbury, Ray. “Prologue.” Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel, Reprint, Simon and Schuster, 2017. *****************************************************, I. Arrivals Chapter 1 The seller of lightning-rods arrived just ahead of the storm. He came along the street of Green Town, Illinois, in the late cloudy October day, sneaking glances over his shoulder. Somewhere not so far back, vast lightnings…

Ray Bradbury – Something Wicked This Way Comes – Prologue

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…

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 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…