In Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, Jim and Will are


portrayed as characters with few similarities: being extremely close in age, and living


next door to each other being the two main parallels. Will is born only minutes before


his counterpart, but he is born in the closing minutes of All Saints Day, October 30, and


Jim in the initial minutes of Halloween. As for these two days that the boys are born, the


former seems to represent righteousness and innocence, while the connotations that


belong to Halloween are evil and depressing; two consecutive holidays, yet completely


opposite implications. The fact that Jim and Will are born within minutes of each other


draws them closer, but like the difference between the two holidays they exemplify, the


situation still has them separated. The relationship that Jim and Will possess consists of


interdependent opposites, and their interactions between each other develop a......

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