In “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, Ray Bradbury uses the archetype of death and rebirth to develop Jim’s character. Jim “was born one minute after midnight, which makes it October thirty-first.”(1:6) October is in the fall, and fall and winter suggest death. He was born on Halloween, a holiday that is associated with fear, monsters, and dark magic. He was also born at night at twelve o’ one in the morning, while it is still dark. All of these show death to a certain degree, and with his unhealable wound, it only seems fitting. Later in the book, it reads, “now this first minute of the new morning was not the minute or the day or morning of ultimate loss”(54:290). This occurs after the defeat of Mr. Dark and the freaks, and this morning