Touched with Fire story

rbt1985e4x03 · 1990-08-03

A retired insurance man and his colleague are convinvced an old woman is about to be murdered and seek to prevent it. Directed by: Roger Tompkins. Story by: Ray Bradbury.

9 total · 2 choice · 4 major · 3 minor

Theme	Level	Motivation
coping with being in a heat wave	choice	Everyone was languishing in the oppressive summer heat. The retired insurance man Mr. Foxe was convinced that more murders were committed at 102 Fahrenheit than at any other temperature. The story follows Mr. Foxe and his colleague Mr. Shaw as they take it upon themselves to prevent Annabelle, a cantankerous neighborhood housewife, from getting murdered during a heatwave. Alas, Annabelle's husband returned home from the bar in something of a rage and fatally bludgeoned her with his longshoreman's hook. Mr. Foxe's thermometer read 102 degrees at the time of the murder, thus lending credence his theory.
murder	choice	The story is premised on the notion that more murders are committed during heatwaves, reaching a peak at 102 degrees Fahrenheit.
anger	major	Annabelle lashed out in anger at everyone around her. In the end, Annabelle's husband came home in something of a rage and fatally bludgeoned her with his longshoreman's hook.
husband and wife	major	Annabelle's quarrel with her stevedore husband culminated with him fatally bludgeoning her with a longshoreman's hook.
shrew character	major	Mr. Foxe and Mr. Shaw believed Annabelle was so outlandishly cantankerous that she was destined to be murdered when the temperature reached 102 degrees Fahrenheit.
spouse murder	major	The story culminated with Mr. Shrike fatally bludgeoning his cantankerous wife, Annabelle, with a longshoreman's hook.
coping with a nag	minor	Mr. Shrike was evidently brought to his wits end by his wife's overbearing nature.
creative writing	minor	In the introduction, Ray Bradbury shared with the viewer the wellsprings of creativity that inspire his writing.
the nature of creativity	minor	In his introduction, Ray Bradbury gave his viewers an intimate window into his writing room, and some of the self-professed sources of creativity that lay about within it.