Horror in Three Stories by Ray Bradbury: “The Last Night of the World,” “A Sound of Thunder,” and “There Will Come Soft Rains”

Horror in Three Stories by Ray Bradbury: “The Last Night of the World,” “A Sound of Thunder,” and “There Will Come Soft Rains”

1. One way to start is by identifying horror. Find a suitable definition and structure your introduction around it. Make sure your thesis refers to Bradbury’s use of horror in the three stories.

2. Next, identify elements of horror in each of the three stories and the characters’ reaction to them. For example: the horror in “The Last Night of the World” is caused by the imminent end of the world. Then, there is the way in which the two main characters accept that reality.

3. Make sure you have a Works Cited page where you list your sources. Make sure you have in-text citations for each of your sources.