Downwind From Gettysburg story
Walter Bynes has created a robotic duplicate of Abraham Lincoln. If one can believe it, the night of its public unveiling is marred by a killer named Booth who plans to assassinate the robot. Directed by: Chris Bailey. Story by: Ray Bradbury.
6 total · 3 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| political assassination | major | The infamous murder of America's 16th president was a central topic in this story. |
| the desire for fame | major | Norman Booth "assassinated" an animatronic Abraham Lincoln to make a name for himself. |
| vandalism | major | The story turns on the wanton destruction of an animatronic Abraham Lincoln. |
| animal cruelty | minor | Norman Booth admitted to having, as a 10 year old boy, broken a turtle's shell with a brick and watched the poor creature die. |
| 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. |