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1. In the book Bradbury uses a Lightning Rod sales man to build early suspense. First of all this man came in “storm colored clothes” walking down the street selling lightning rods. He asked the boy’s if there parents were home and they said no. Even though the boys didn’t have any money he still gave them a lightning rod because he said lightning was defiantly going to hit one of the houses. “Take this free! Why? One of those houses will be stuck by lightning! With out this rod, bang! Fire and ash, roast pork and cinders! Grab!” (Bradbury 7)” This shows that the storm coming was going to be atrocious. However Mr. Fury, the lightning rod sales man wasn’t exactly true. A storm was coming but not the type of storm many people would think of. It was rather a storm of evil. When Mr. Fury points to Jim’s house being struck he pretty much builds up the suspense of future evil in Jim. Also other then building suspense it also foreshadowed Mr. Fury’s disappearance. Mr. Fury was always running away from the storm always one step ahead, he feared it. In this story if you feared something or desired anything you would have been taken in by the evil.

2. Will’s father Mr. Halloway is a fifty-five year man who is a janitor at the library in town. He is a very Complex character who changes a lot throughout the whole book. In the beginning he is introduced as a person who doesn’t seem like he can help a lot. He cares about his son but in his eyes it seemed like it was almost impossible to connect with him. Mr. Halloway saw his age as being a disadvantage, he believed that he was older then he really was and he really missed being young. When the boys were leaving the library he pondered. “Watching the boys vanish away, Charles Halloway suppressed a sudden urge to run with them, make the pack” (Bradbury 17). Also when he was talking to Will’s mom he said “…Will… makes me feel so old… a man should play baseball with his son….” (Bradbury 37). These two examples show how Mr. Halloway desires the want to me young again.

However throughout the book he changes. He initially shows