Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes

In Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes, Jim and Will are portrayed as characters with few similarities: being extremely close in age, and living next door to each other being the two main parallels. Will is born only minutes before his counterpart, but he is born in the closing minutes of All Saints Day, October 30, and Jim in the initial minutes of Halloween. As for these two days that the boys are born, …

…equal when they experience adventures together, and the two of them are forced to work together to overcome evil. The first time that either of the two boys were alone comes in this novel, and it is during these times that they realize how much they truly depend on each other for security. This novel is about the differing personalities of two unlikely companions, and how their actions together are eventually equal with each other.