The Wicked Will Rise

In the novel, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Mr. Dark is characterized as weak through internal and external conflict. The conflict shown through the quotes “I could kill you,” (Bradbury 211) “on the biggest stage…stood Mr. Dark,” (108) and “Mr. Dark was running” (254) creates an internal conflict of confidence versus being a coward. This shows Mr. Dark’s internal conflict explaining his struggle to be confident when he could easily shy away from danger. This characterizes him as weak as even though he is the ringleader of the carnival he can’t help but to back away from it when his plans go wrong. Not only can Mr. Dark be seen as weak through an internal conflict but also through an external conflict. “The boy leaped back…the man

In Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury establishes, biblical and literary allusions to his novel. The textual evidence “crowed opened as the sea before Moses” (Bradbury 244), show the biblical allusion. As Mr. Dark prepares to do the bullet trick he is left without a volunteer to shoot the rifle. Until, Charles returns from the library to find justice. When he does make an appearance to the audience is separated as if they were an ocean being cut in half. This is a reference to the Bible “Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided” (New International Version ,Exodus. 4:21). As Moses is helping the Israelites escape they

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew is very interesting story-wise. It has a lot of good morals and allegories teaching integrity, self-control and wisdom and is mostly composed of biblical allusions.

The Wizard of Oz is a classic known by all. The plot is fairly simple. Poor bored Dorothy is sick of her normal boring life on her Aunt and Uncles farm in Kansas and decides to run away to a more exciting life. Her plans are changed when she meets a fortune teller who convinces her to go back home. Unfortunately, as she is headed back home a horrible storm starts and she and her dog Toto are blown away, along with her house. When she lands, she comes outside to see that she has landed on a person with red shoes. She is met by tiny people and a witch called Glinda who tells her that she has landed on and killed the Wicked Witch of the East. Dorothy tells Glinda she wants to go home, and Glinda tells her if she follows the yellow brick road she will end up in the Emerald City where the Wonderful Wizard of Oz can help get her home.

Danielle Paige’s fantasy story, “Dorothy Must Die,” takes place in the land called Oz, which is known for people that have a good or a wicked side. When facing someone of which is wicked but is doing a good deed, most people do not realize that in this world there is no difference in the two. During the journey of a girl from Kansas, she discovers along the way that someone of which used to be good, is now filling the land with her wickedness. One theme that this story proposes is whether it’s wicked but good, or good but wicked. One another can change into the other because they’re no fine lines between the two.

William Halloway and James Nightshade are thirteen year old boys living in Green Town, Illinois. They will turn fourteen within a week. A lightning-rod salesman comes into town and warns the boys that a storm is coming. He gives Jim a lightning rod to put up on his roof. The boys visit Charles Halloway, Will's father, at the library and take out some books. Charles Halloway feels old, although he is only fifty-four, and he is tormented by an urge to be young and run like the boys. Both Charles Halloway and the boys learn about the carnival that is to start the next day. Will's father sees a sign in a store window that advertises Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show, and Jim and Will find a similar handbill in the street.

The book I read was called Chains written by Laurie Halse Anderson. This book was about standing up for your self even if you are not the biggest person or the most powerful person in the room. I think it teaches a lot of children a lesson. You can stand up for yourself, no mater what atmosphere you are in. A lot of people struggle with feeling not important and people can say what they want, because you don't matter. The author did a really great job of teaching that lesson.

“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.

the novel, when Jim wants to return home as quickly as possible in anticipation of a

Danielle Paige’s fantasy story, “Dorothy Must Die,” takes place in the land called Oz, which is known for people that have a good or a wicked side. When facing someone of which is wicked but is doing a good deed, most people do not realize that in this world there is no difference in the two. During the journey of a girl from Kansas, she discovers along the way that someone of which used to be good, is now filling the land with her wickedness. One theme that this story proposes is whether it’s wicked but good, or good but wicked. One another can change into the other because they’re no fine lines between the two.

In “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, the archetype of the hero is shown through Will Halloway when he matures and learns to overcome his fears. In the beginning of the book, Will is seen as someone who “swooped to follow” (Bradbury16), and “not understanding” (Bradbury28), showing that he is very young minded and innocent. As well as a follower to Jim due to his lack of being able to survive alone. The line, “..at thirteen he had saved up only six years of staring” (Bradbury39) proves the idea that he hasn’t lived all the years of his life to the fullest and depends on people like Jim to do that for him. At first, Will is very dependent and sometimes fearful of doing big things. It isn’t until Chapter 23 when “Will let Jim go” (Bradbury103)

In “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” by Ray Bradbury, there are different literary and biblical allusions to prove a point and further explain something. “J.C. Cooger and G. M. Dark Present the Pandemonium Theater CO. Combined Side Shows And Unnatural Museums, International!” (Bradbury 192). “…and cross-continental Pandemonium Theater Company…”

In the novel, Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, the biblical and literary allusions are shown throughout the story.

“The cyclone had set the house down into a country of marvelous beauty.” is merely just the beginning of the tale of Dorothy traveling through a mysterious land, making interesting friends, and eventually slaying an evil witch. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an epic by L. Frank Baum is known by children and adults alike all over. And what exactly makes this tale of a naive little girl an epic? The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an epic due to its characteristics, conventions, archetypes, and the way it follows the stereotypical hero’s journey.

The great pretense and deceptions of malevolence and wickedness in diverse forms and fashions have wreaked mayhem with all our moral predeterminations. There is evil in diverse forms all around us. Brother kills brother. Brother kidnaps brother, kills father and mother, for money. Mammon now reigns supreme in the heart of our existence. This appearance of evil in the façade of mammon is absolutely flustering perplexing to anyone raised in the traditional Igbo land and conventional moral culture. How have we arrived at the abyss of evilness of evil? However, for the Christian who surrounds her/his life with the Scripture it simply validates the profound wickedness of iniquity.