Something Wicked This Way Comes By Ray Bradbury: An Analysis

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Technology had always developed for a long time. Until this time, it still develops at a stunning pace. It never ceases to amaze us. Technology has touched every aspect of life, in the way we move from using a horse to automobile, from walking on the land to flying in the air to reach a farther distance. The products we are using in our daily life also produced by the technology. There is nothing we see in this era that has not been affected by technology, including the economy, politics, and also society, the human itself.
The technologies that we are using nowadays have a great impact on the society. Technology has changed the way people live. This phenomenon was started from the industrial revolution happened, where technology finally could be produced in a huge amount.
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He is one of the 20th-century American writers who was born in a small-town Waukegan, Illinois. He had written many works line novels, short story, children’s books, plays, screenplays, and poetry. Some of his works that quite famous are science fiction Fahrenheit 451 (1953), dark fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962), and the famous The Martian Chronicles (1950). Bradbury received a Special Award and Citation from the Pulitzer Prize jury in 2007: “...for his distinguished, prolific, and deeply influential career as an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasy”.–Pulitzer Winner by 2007.
This novel is one of his works that is different from the other works that he has ever written. Before, this is a series of short story that later on made into a novel. Each chapter is originally one individual short story. Bradbury had written some new chapter when it decided to be made as a novel. Also, it is taken from his own childhood images. The name of the main character, Douglas, is taken from Ray ‘Douglas’ Bradbury middle name. Besides, the setting of this novel, a small Green Town, is also taken from his own hometown as