Something Wicked This Way Comes Literary Analysis

Happiness is something that people all over the world strive for each day; it is even some's ultimate goal in life. There are many different philosophies on how to achieve and maintain happiness, but no two people are precisely alike on their journey. Nonetheless, there is one reiterating theme found, everybody has been given a chance at happiness. Life has never denied anyone of at least a glimpse of the feeling. Although there will be darkness in life, happiness is perpetually found down the road

I am Doug Spaulding. Ray Bradbury may have chosen Doug to be the twelve-year-old protagonist in Dandelion Wine, but I am convinced that Bradbury took a pencil and paper to my childhood. Part of the reason why Doug’s character resonates with me so much stems from Bradbury’s use of symbolic language. Because symbolism leaves the audience to interpret the text’s meaning, every reader draws a different interpretation of the text based on his or her own personal experiences. By picturing the experience

Freeleigh. The Colonel, nicknamed the “Time machine”, is an old man who has a very vivid and long-standing memory. Doug and his friend love to visit him since he able to tell wonderful stories of his past. He dies of natural causes, but his death still comes as a shock for Doug. Later, his great grandma dies of old age. She is ready to die and offers Doug some calming words about death. She tells him, “Important thing is not the me that’s lying here, but the me that’s sitting on the edge of the bed looking

and information or ideas. The older characters in the novel help teach the children life lessons and the way that the older people in the novel view the the world is different than the way the kids do and they impact the main character through teaching him. Colonel Freeleigh was one of the grown ups in the novel that was able to

childhood and formative years in Waukegan. This period provided foundations for both the author and his stories. In Bradbury's works of fiction, 1920s Waukegan becomes "Green Town," Illinois. In his stories, Green Town is a symbol of safety and home, which is often juxtaposed as a contrasting backdrop to Bradbury as a senior in high school, of his tales of fantasy or menace. It serves as the setting of his modern classics Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Farewell Summer. In Green Town

surroundings and itself. In many ways, change causes development and maturity, yet it also causes decline and decay. Change is constant. However, the paradox of change is often difficult to accept, and people will fight with its reality throughout their lifetimes: friends will come and go, epiphanies and advances will arrive, and things will never quite be like they used to be. The struggle between change and the individual is a recurring part of Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine. This relationship shows not only

published in 1957. The story takes place in the small town of Green Town where a serial killer, The Lonely One, remains at large. The main character, Lavinia Nebbs and her friends try to cope with the discovery of Elizabeth Ramsell’s body on their way to see a Charlie Chaplin film. Lavinia appears to be the only one not shaken up by the horrible news, and after finding out that a conspicuous man is inquisitive about Lavinia, the ladies appear to be on edge. Lavinia struggles to control her fear at

eternal. The changes that we experience come because of certain events that take place in life, or oftentimes just because of maturity. Whatever changes that transpire, it is important to embrace them, as life goes on. Ray Bradbury’s novel Dandelion Wine embodies these same aspects of change through its central characters, Doug and Tom Spaulding. The way that they exemplify this idea of continual change is through their lives during the summer of 1928. During this period, Doug and Tom watch change influence

so far, so fast, and then the earth’s got you again… … like trolleys. Trolleys, big as they are, always come to the end of the line… YOU CAN’T DEPEND ON PEOPLE BECAUSE… … they go away. … strangers die. … people you know fairly well die. … friends die. … people murder people, like in books. … your own folks die” (Bradbury 186).

Douglas is crushed by John’s news, and he deals with the loss of his friend by getting angry with John. Afterwards, Colonel Freeleigh dies, and Douglas feels a great loss. He comes to realize that the colonel’s legacy has died with him. As August starts, Douglas begins to lose his enthusiasm in summer. However, his grandfather is able to raise his spirits with dandelion wine. The dandelion wine that he makes with his brother