Tone In Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes

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A couple of tones that can be found in “Something Wicked This Way Comes” that pertain to Jim Nightshade are serious and scared. We can see when the tone is serious when he asks “Mom, can you remember dad’s face?”(Bradbury 40) , “Hell William, hell, even I don’t believe what’s happened to us this weekend” (125), and “Will I’m sorry, let’s get out of here. Oh god, god”(158). This is a serious tone because we can see that this is a change from Jim’s usually cool exterior and the audience knows that in these quotes from the book, Jim is anything but his usual calm and collected self. The reader can also see a scared tone throughout the book. The scared tone can be seen through “A long way off from the storm, Jim was yelling too”(113), “Jim hugged
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