1. SWTWC: Notes Chapters 4 -14
Describe the storm – what is coming?
What do people sense about it?
Why do people keep thinking about boyhood/youth?
Tetley – cigar store owner
Crosetti – barber
Christmas song – incongruous (explain)
“The wrong shall fail, the right prevail”
GOOD and EVIL which shall win?
“Cooger and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show”
pandemonium = a place marked by choas and disorder
shadow = a second image of something/shaded/undefined
dark = cloaked and scary/without goodness and light
Constant images – shadow and dark
Mr. Dark = The Illustrated Man

2. “The most beautiful Woman in the world”:
-first carnival image of temptation
-woman in ice –represents temptation/sin
*wanting what you can not have * DESIRE
Who sees the block of ice?
Charles Halloway
Tom Fury
Iron pieces- signs and symbols throughout history that made people believe that they are safe
Halloway Family – not very close, but they seem content and complete
mother – happy and caring
father – dissatisfied and unhappy at home *at the library???
Nightshade Family – just Jim and his mother
mother – sad and has had a tough life/worries about Jim leaving
father – took off and is not around
siblings - died

3. Carnival – three inconsistencies with the carnival
*Oct 24th (usually end after Labor Day)
*3 AM - calliope music at night (usually arrive at dawn)
body’s at low tide
soul is out
blood moves slow; nearest death you’ll ever be save dying (hospitals)
*silence (usually noisy hustle and bustle)
(personification – skeleton canvas skin=human strength/(it’s alive)
Balloon!?!? Mirror maze - waiting
Train – whistle “protests of a billion people dead or dying”
-calliope church music, no one playing
-BALLOON??
-imagery – spider, water

4. Character Development: Roles: Charles – insightful advisor
women versus men: sin/temptation
- Who is more likely to give in and be tempted?
“She is immortal. She has a son.” –ch14
-mothers live on, bind eternity with their children (“live forever”)
Character Development:
Roles: Charles – insightful advisor
Will – protector and bodyguard
Jim – risk-taker