Someone knows your secret dream, that one great wish that you would pay
anything for. That person suddenly makes your dream come true - before you learn the
price you have to pay. Ray Bradbury's, Something Wicked This Way Comes, is a chilling
and suspenseful thriller, making a boy's secret dream come true right before his own eyes
and that of his friend's too. The story in this book continually jumps back and forth
between three characters; two which are always together and the other the library janitor
and father of the one. Bradbury's style keeps the book flowing smoothly throughout all of
his hopping and skipping around. He seems to be a mastermind of writing as the story
develops before your eyes and you get drawn in never wanting to leave, until the book is
over and you know the ending. I felt like I was sitting right there on the clouds watching
all of this take place.
Bradbury pulls you into the book and makes it 'our place, too.'
All of this starts off quite interesting. It is October, the month of Halloween, and
in this strange year Halloween came early. A lightning rod salesman, come to the town
predicting a humongous storm that is coming this way. The clouds speak their own
words, telling the same. Jim Nightshade and William Halloway, neighbors and best
friends, one born a minute before October thirtieth and one born a minute after October
thirtieth, both lay there in Jim's front yard. The salesman stopped and told them that the
storm was coming and it was coming for them. One of their houses would get struck by
lightning and who was to say which one. 'This,' said the salesman, 'is the one.' He had
been talking about Jim's house,