The Dust Witch Tone Analysis

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In something wicked this way comes by Ray Bradbury, Bradbury uses tone to convey a sense of peril and optimism when The Dust Witch encounters her foes. The textual evidence” I don’t want her back to this house”(Bradbury151), “Choking a scream he spun”( 148), and “he nudged his weapons” show the perilous tone. By describing Wills fears as he is about to embark on his dangerous mission to stop the dust witch, he thinks about the fatal events that could happen. This demonstrates the lethality of The Dust Witch as will questions whether he will leave this encounter with the Dust Witch alive. Bradbury does this to demonstrate the seriousness of this encounter as after they occur and Will destroys the Witch’s balloon I changes the course of events

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