Killer going around town knocking people off, you'd think the neighbors wouldīe relieved when he died, right? But in Chapter 31, Charlie Woodman's bummedĪbout the loss of the Green Town boogey man: The universal human terror of dying since it amps up all the most terrifyingĮlements, particularly the fear of the unknown. The former is much more effective if you want to talk about Each letter bore the signature-you guessed it-'The Lonely One.'Ī murderer, and a serial killer who's never caught makes a way better antagonist for a boy who fears death than a guy who knocks over a few convenience storesĪnd gets busted. The first he left behind for the owner, apologizing for taking the money the second he sent to the local newspaper, detailing exactly how he committed the crime the third went to the cops, making fun of them for not catching him. Weyant had a strange M.O.: he would break into a business, rob the joint, then write three letters. Which Green Town is based] when I was six years old and he frightened everyoneĪctually however, that's not true-the Augedition of the Chicago Tribune reports that a 'cat burglar' named Orvel Weyant was very much captured. And he moved around at night in my home town [Waukegan, Illinois, on Was there a Lonely One? There was, and that was But Wait… He Wasīyzantium,' Bradbury's introduction to Dandelion It seems at first like 'the Lonely One' might just be another Wonder if he's an actual person or just an urban (or, in this case, rural) In fact, the first time she mentions his name, you

You never know when the Lonely One'll turn up orĪny detail about what the Lonely One actually looks like, or any indication of Night Doug goes missing in the ravine and his mother worries he's dead, she Lonely One has no small job in Dandelion Wine: he represents death itself. Anyway, despite the sketchiness of his character-both We? Nobody knows for sure whether or not he's the one whose body they haul out Lonely One is a major character even though we never directly see him.

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