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Something Wicked This Way Comes By Ray Bradbury

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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” (Martin Luther King Jr). Love is the invisible force that wakes you up in the morning and puts you back to sleep, hoping to relive the moment again, or in a simpler sense, it might be random acts of kindness among people that makes up happy, selfless communities. Or it might be a deadly trap for the weak when its powers are abused, but whatever the case, love is important for everyday customs and habits. In the novel Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, the theme love is expressed all throughout the novel from little things like giving free lightning rods to defend against “the storm” to big things like saving a careless soul. The main characters Jim Nightshade and William Holloway are best friends, but they are bound by a fragile rope …show more content…

He suggests that the carousel can result in the “change of body, change of personal environment, for one thing… so more fear, more agony for the carnival to breakfast on.”(206) The carnival can tempt you to ride the beautiful carousel for the impossible transformation of age, but they won’t reveal the real side effects. After they persuade you to ride the carousel, your age might change, but the brain won’t. With that said, you would be cut off from the world, and for the rest of your life, you will be aloof and separated from the ones you love which the carnival craves for in the long run. However, there is one advantage that people have against the night, and Charles questions himself “Could he say love was, above, all, common cause, shared experience? That was the vital cement, wasn’t it?”(197) This means that the only advantage humans have against evil is the power of love that connects people of all sorts, so if evil messes with one, they mess with

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