“The Whole Town’s Sleeping”
5-Paragraph Essay
Choose one of the prompts below to focus on for your essay.
Prompt 2:
How are temperatures used in the text?
Is there a pattern to how the temperatures are used? Are certain temperatures associated more with one particular character or scene? Why?
The temperatures will often fluctuate in the story, sometimes even changing in a single sentence. Why does Bradbury do this? How do these temperatures reflect the tone of the story or the emotions of the characters?
What do these temperatures represent in the story? (This will require you to establish your own understanding of what the temperatures represent and find the most impactful uses of that temperature in the text to analyze the significance.)
Is there a pattern to how the temperatures are used? Are certain temperatures associated more with one particular character or scene? Why?
