Something Wicked This Way Comes Quotes Analysis

“Shut up! Listen! But Will wept. And again his father hauled off and hit him. Once on the left cheek. Once on the right cheek, hard. All the tears in him were knocked flying; there were no more.” (281). In the novel Something Wicked Comes This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, a haunting carnival comes to Green Town, Illinois with its many sinister wonders and two-faced temptations. Best friends, Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade, had to muster up all their courage and overlook their fear if they wanted to liberate the town from the carnival’s dark magic.

Quote 2: “Between lay in a pool of water. In the water floated a few shards of ice. In the ice were a few long strands of hair” (Bradbury 53). Explanation: I didn’t really understand why ‘The most beautiful lady in the world’ was added to the book.

He must kill Mr. Dark and the dust witch alone, or hope to gain help along the way. “Will held breath, held weapon” (Bradbury251). This evidence shows Will’s struggle to fight off the Illustrated Man’s force in order to get up and help his dad kill the Dust Witch. Will knows what he must do and gets up to help his dad carry the gun all while dealing with the Illustrated Man’s anger. “Will racing after” (Bradbury269), and “Will’s side stabbed with pain” (Bradbury269) show that Will dealt with the struggle to fight off the force of the carousel and save Jim. Due to the carousel’s spinning, Will has a struggle to get Jim off. In the process, Will has to find Jim and the carousel and then proceed to fight off Mr. Dark before attempting to get Jim off. Proving the external conflict that Will

In Something Wicked This Way Comes, Charles Halloway servers as a mentor to Jim and Will throughout the novel. Charles first shows that he is a mentor to the boys when he asks himself " Why am I here at all?" in which he responds by saying "Right now,it seems, to help you"(Bradbury 194). In this instance Halloway is viewed as a mentor to the boys because he is more than willing to help the and protect the boys from an evil entity, even if he may be facing his own conflicts as well. Also, by saying "Right now,it seem, to help you," one can predict that Charles is putting a plan together so that they may escape death at the hands of Mr. Dark.

Something Wicked This Way Comes contains archetypes of the horror genre in events in the story and creates a twist in the style they are presented in. Bradbury accomplishes this feat through the events in this captivating story by using parallelism to describe these events, and also by utilizing figurative language to convey the meaning of the horror archetypes throughout the book. This book contains many archetypes of the horror genre. For example, Bradbury describes the train whistle with the sentence “The outgone shreds of breath, the protests of a billion people dead or dying, not wanting to be dead, their groans, their sighs, burst over the earth” (Bradbury 50).

In the novel The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton Explores the topic: Through hardships we can learn valuable lessons that will teach us so much in life. According to Hope Solo, ¨… overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally. To be honest, I welcome those hardships.¨ This quote proves that if you keep going in life , even when it gets hard, then the hardships that you once thought were not possible to overcome, will help you grow stronger as a person. The advice given, relates to the the novel The Outsiders, because throughout the book, Ponyboy goes through several hard things. Not only does he try to keep going in life , but he also learns to welcome the hardships as Solo was able to do.

     Jim was brought up as a Methodist. He became quickly fascinated with the pulpit oratory. Vera Price, a childhood playmate remembers, ”He’d always be the preacher, standing up making sermons”(Axthelm 54). Even at the young age of seven Vera, recalls Jim’s speeches encouraging strict discipline. She remembers occasions when Jim was playing with other children and “he’d hit them with a stick and make them cry. He had a power that most boys don’t have”(Axthelm 54). As Jim matured into a young adult this internal power he possessed was not fully matured. In high school Jim was in the popular crowd, but never the leader of the pack. “Only in retrospect does anyone claim to have spotted seeds of the horror to come.’ I had a hunch something bad was going to happen to him,’ says a middle-aged man in Lynn. He was smart as a whip. But he had some strange ideas. He never fit in with the town. He was different”(Axthelm 54).

In Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes", the Dust Witch can be symbolized with Supernatural Intervention. The Dust Witch seems to possess supernatural abilities such as smelling souls of nearby people and slow down other people's hearts. These abilities can be seen when the Dust Witch uses her ability to smell souls to look for Jim and Will as they are hiding in the grille of the sidewalk. "Her fingers climbed down, feeling the spectrums." (Bradbury 179).

Irony Verbal irony throughout this novel helps us to better understand Will’s character. When Jim refers to Will as a “darn old dimwit Episcopal Baptist” we get a better understanding of Will. (Bradbury29) Will always does what he feels is right. This may make him look boring to others, but Will does not sway from what he believes.

Yin and Yang are both created together but then separate into two different beings one representing all that is light and good in the world while the other represents all that is dark and heavy but are both necessary for the creation of the world. In the creation myth of “The Women Who Fell from The Sky” both of our creators are brothers who fight with one another in order to create the world I their image. Like Ying and Yang, one is good while the other is evil. Both Myths need the bad and the good; they both represent the good and bad in the world. The morality of both stories is that both Ying and Yan balance each other just like both brothers are a reflection of each other.

“Opposites attract.” This is a very cliché quote used by physicists and other scientific personnel, but it rings true in many different ways. In literature, the correct term for a character that sets off or enhances another character by contrast is called a “foil.” Pairs of characters that are foils to each other have very opposing views and personalities, but their presence with each other illustrates the qualities in a better light. The book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a fictional novel which includes a main character named Okonkwo. Okonkwo has some very distinguishing features about him, but the fact that he has a foil in the novel

The book highlights a young man named Xiangzi, who always seems to have a balance of fortune and misfortune throughout the book. It is known around the world how yin and yang is present in Chinese culture because it represents balance. This theme of yin and yang is highlighted throughout the life and personalities of the different characters in the book, with the white part being the good fortune, while the black part being the bad fortune.The symbolisms of yin and yang are highlighted throughout the life of Xiangzi. There is always a balance of good fortune and bad fortune in his life. One day everything goes his way, the next day he loses everything he works for. An example of this was when he came into the city and worked so hard to get

One of the best examples of this in Nicholas Sparks novel Safe Haven, “‘Then you should have never have left me,’ he whispered his breath heavy with alcohol. He pulled the trigger and the gun sounded with a loud crack…He felt a burning in his stomach, fire.” (Sparks 360). The novel was about a lady Katie who ran away from her abusive husband and found someone who actually loved her Alex. The good versus evil in this is the people. The evil person is the husband that eventually is killed by gunshot. Then the good is the life that she builds with this family and this is the one that wins. It is common in Sparks’ novels to have a good versus evil plot within people and the person that is perceived as bad typically ends up dead. This is also shown in Sparks’ novel Lucky One, the dad, Keith, was speaking and then the son Ben was speaking, “He could catch his breath only in snatches, and he flailed against the death that he suddenly knew was coming… ‘Where is dad?’ At his words he began to cry.” (Sparks 377, 380). Throughout the novel it is discovered that the dad is an alcoholic, he is verbally abusive to his previous wife, and it is insinuated that he isn’t very involved in his son’s life. The dad in this instance would be considered as the evil and then the new boyfriend would be considered as the good. In the end of the book the dad dies a tragic death and Logan ends up with Beth and her son, Ben. Once again showing that in the end good overcomes evil. Although this isn’t always true it is an exciting

Will sees himself as a “southie”, a loser. To maintain congruence between his self-view and his experiences his acts out. He starts fights and stays in trouble. He doesn't seek anything better for himself.

In Aravind Adiga’s novel The White Tiger, Balram, the main character, describes a duality of Light and Darkness. India is split into two halves: the “Darkness” and the “Light.” In contrast with popular belief that light is good and darkness is evil, there is no clear picture in the novel of this; the Light is not displayed as morally righteous, nor is the Darkness. Rather, the Light is the rich urban India and the impoverished Darkness is the rural inner India. Inside this larger duality between Light and Darkness, there are many smaller pairs that illustrate the differences between the Light and Darkness.