Ray Bradbury was a very well known Author whose stories have also been put into films or screenplays. Ray’s Stories, books, films, and screenplays all have a lot of common and show some similarities throughout them. Weather it be the setup of the story or the style of writing, all have some similarities. I will be comparing “ The Small Assassin” and the first episode of the first season of The Ray Bradbury Theater. In “The Small Assassin” Bradbury makes readers believe Alice, his main character, was insane. He was very convincing when he tells his readers that Alice hates her child and believes that her own flesh and blood is trying to kill her. Who would actually believe that an innocent baby would try to hurt anyone and that a mother could hate her own child that much. His attention to detail caused readers to question could a baby really do this. Could a baby really crawl out of his crib, could he be wide awake at night and could he cause movement in the room. There was a eerie feel to the short story making one wonder what was…show more content… The main characters in each were a husband and wife. Alice, the wife in “The Small Assassin” was thought to be insane as she thought her newborn baby was trying to kill her. The wife in ray Bradbury Theatre drove her husband crazy each morning and he did not want to be around here. Each writing had a creepy feel and making you question what would happen next and would the character actually be willing to do that. In “The Small Assassin” how can a mother want to kill her own son and also believe that her son wants to kill her. In the Ray Bradbury Theatre how can John want to stay married to his wife and be willing to pay a replica $25,000, his life savings, just so he doesn’t have to spend so much time with her. Bradbury keeps you guessing throughout both of these passages even though you know neither of these can happen in real
