Part one of term paper
Although one might think that the carnival in Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes, uses magic to obtain its goals, in reality it uses the power of fear. The first among the freaks in the carnival to utilize fear is the Dust Witch. The discussion between the boys and Will’s father also shows that Cooger and Dark’s Pandemoni ...

Part two of term paper
... Dust Witch uses the boys’ fear of her and the carnival to locate their homes. Bradbury describes the old gypsy as being, “... blind, but [a] special blind. She could dip down her hands to feel the bumps of the world, touch house roofs, probe attic bins, reap dust, examine droughts that blew through halls and souls that blew through people, draughts vented from bellows to thump-wrist, to pound-temples, to pulse-throat, and back to bellows again (Bradbury 143).” The carnival selects her becau ...