It is lunch and the three sit down to eat. He is surrounded – he knows it! He feels it coming, but Tom and Dad break the spell as they rattle in the bushes. While Dad points out different flora and fauna, Douglas feels the overwhelming presence of something. Douglas has a sense that today holds something special for him, that something will happen. Chapter 2ĭouglas, his father, and his younger brother Tom drive out of town to the silent forest. It is the summer of 1928 and it has just begun.
He smiles that this will be a fine season. He stands and looks out over the town and begins to summon lights to come on, people to wake, the sun to rise. Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding wakes up in his grandparents’ third-story bedroom tower (he’s allowed to spend one night a week there) and marvels at this day. It is a quiet morning – the first morning of summer. (Bradbury does not actually label his chapters) Chapter 1
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