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Summary Of The Book 'Something Wicked This Way Comes'

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Sharise Baker-Bazile
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Something Wicked This Way Comes By: Ray Bradbury

Reading Log #1 (Prologue- Chapter 3): Arrivals

Something Wicked This Way Comes, begins in October "a rare month for boys". Halloween comes early for the boys Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade and it will possibly change their lives forever. A lightning rod salesman (Tom Fury) walks in Greentown, where he has a feeling that a storm is coming soon. Tom Fury sees the two boys and tries to sell them a lightning rod, however, they don’t have any money. His lightning rod is covered in weird symbols and words from different languages. Tom Fury predicts that Jim’s house will get hit by the storm and urges him to put up the lighting rod. Will convinces Jim to put up the lighting rod because he thinks that the protection of the rod is more valuable. Something Wicked This Way Comes starts off with foreshadowing. Tom Fury foreshadows an event that’s going to happen soon. …show more content…
Will sees his dad as an older version of himself. When the boys are done they walk back home. Charles understands why the boys walk back home. He sees Jim and Will as two opposites of each other. Jim will always see his obstacles and try to dodge them and get rid of them and Will be the one who will get hit with the obstacles. Charles believes that in a friendship the two people try to mold each other and make eachother better . He then leaves the library and goes to a bar to get his nightly drink not for him, but for the boy he used to

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