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…

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 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…