CHAPTER TEN

What does the woman in ice represent to the lightning-rod salesman?

How do you know?

CHAPTER NINE

Jim Nightshade lies in bed. His dark eyes, dark brown hair, and the dark veins in his face and neck make him "marbled with dark."

What do you think Bradbury means by "marbled with dark"?

CHAPTER EIGHT

Why do you think Will's father is sad and feels old?

Why do you think his father is worried about the carnival?

CHAPTER SEVEN

The paper is an advertisement the boys find for Cooger and Dark's show,mentions all sorts of strange people. The paper mentions a monster Montgolfier, which Will explains is a balloon. Have you found any interesting vocabulary throughout the book so far?

CHAPTER SIX

Jim stops at Hickory Street, and tells Will that he must go look at the "Theater." What do they find at the Theater?

Chapter Five

What do you think about the woman who is encased in ice? Could she be representive of something? Is she real? What do you think?

Chapter Four

Why do you think Mr. Crosetti is crying because he smells cotton candy?

Chapter Three

• Describe the friendship between Will and Jim. What does the author mean when he says that Charles Halloway (Will's father) see the boys as representatives of two different types.

• Ray Bradbury tends to use "foreshadowing" in this novel. What is foreshadowing and what are some examples of it in this chapter or the ones before it?

Chapter Two

Why do you think Bradbury keeps emphasizing the "coming storm" in this chapter and the one before?

Prologue and Chapter One

I noticed a lot of symbolism in the opening chapter.

• James Nightshade: Night/black/dark/ shade = evil/something bad
• James Nightshade is thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-three days: all odd numbers
• the boys are thirteen going on fourteen: the number 13
• Lightning rod salesman sells lightning rods that are covered in strange symbols and words from many different languages to ward off lightning: Could the lightning mean something bad?
• Will Halloway: his last name almost sounds like Halloween which is the month the novel begins

Anyone notice anything else or have thoughts on anything else in the chapter?

Welcome to the Book Club Blog

Welcome to the Class 851's Book Club Blog. The novel we will be starting during the month of February is Something Wicked This Way Comes by: Ray Bradbury. The story begins with William Halloway and James , 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. Soon a carvival comes to town - just the ordinary kind. Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show bring mystery to this sleepy town.

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