The Theme Of Weather In Ray Bradbury's 'October Country'

In Ray Bradbury’s October Country, we see the theme of autumn’s weather play out in multiple stories. In his story The Lake he gives us a setting of the ending of summer and the beginning of autumn, “It was September. In the last days when things are getting sad for no reason. [sic] The beach was so long and lonely with only about six people on it. The kids quit bouncing the ball because somehow the wind made them sad, too whistling the way it did, and the kids sat down and felt autumn come along the endless shore.” (pg 108) As for must kids it is disappointing when the end of summer fits and the beginning of autumn the cold windy nights, no more trips to the beach, school starting back up.
An even better example of how the title the October Country is the right pick for this book is this quote “All the hot-dog stands were boarded up with strips of golden planking, sealing in all the mustard, onion, meat odors of the long, joyful summer. It was like nailing summers into a series of coffins. One by one the places slammed their covers down, padlocked their doors, and the wind came and touched the sand, blowing away all of the million footprints of July and August. (pg 108-109) This is a wonderful example of the ending of summer and the beginning of autumn the beach is closing down the hot-dog stands are no longer open keeping in …show more content…
“It was on one of the last days that we walked down by the shore. It was not quite as late in the year as that day so many years before, but the evidences of desertion were coming upon the beach. People were thinning out, several of the hot-dog stands had been shuttered and nailed, and the wind, as always, waited there to sing for us.” (pg 112) Like many times during autumn the wind is howling and whistling and some might even call it singing as Mr. Bradbury does in the quote