Remember, Charles Halloway describes autumn people like this: "They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. We're never going to look at autumn the same way again. While most of the townspeople are thoroughly entertained by the carnival and its assortment of exotic freaks, Will and Jim have seen its true nature and are horrified. They are shocked when the carnival trespasses: "'The carnival!' gasped Jim. For the boys, especially, their town has always been a place of safety, a place they know well. We think it's pretty significant that the carnival sets up camp on the outskirts of town, reinforcing its position as an intruder into the lives of Green Town's citizens.
Their lives of boyhood innocence and fun are enabled by the type of town they live in – the type of town where the barber knows your name and you run into your seventh-grade teacher at the carnival. They climb trees, pick fruit, and whistle with their hands in their pockets.
Jim and Will run around with pockets full of kite-string, frog-eyes, kitchen matches, and dead insects. Green Town, Illinois seems like such a peaceful small town, the kind of place where no one locks their doors and boys play innocent little pranks.
Green Town, IL, some time around the 1950s, at the end of October
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