26 pages 52 minutes read

Ray Bradbury

Zero Hour

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1947

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Essay Topics

1.

Is there a distinct moment in which the Invasion becomes more than a game, or in which the children shift from innocence to culpability? Why or why not?

2.

Who or what is the antagonist in “Zero Hour,” and in what ways might this change as the story progresses?

3.

Read Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day,” and then compare the way children and the Loss of Innocence are portrayed in that short story and “Zero Hour.”