All Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury

In the story: All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury, he expresses a theme that relates to many schools today, Depression can cause people to withdraw from others. Interestingly enough, Ray Bradbury has chosen to explore this theme in a story of a future generation that has the chance to travel between planets due to evolution. This leads to people living on Venus and having to see the sun only once every seven years. While this girl got to see the sun every day down on earth but when they came to live on Venus the other kids were so jealous that they exalted her from even seeing the sun until the next seven years passed. To portray the theme, Ray Bradbury uses literary techniques like using symbolism and imagery. one certain part of the story stands this: "When the class sang songs about happiness and life and games her lips barely moved. She was an old photograph dusted from an album, whitened away, and if she spoke at all her voice would be a ghost. Now she stood, separate, staring at the rain and

Ray also uses imagery to describe the feeling of seeing to stop them. Ray uses imagery as another technique to show how the sun feels. He writes “It was the color of flaming bronze and it was very large. And the sky around it was a blazing blue tile color. And the jungle burned with sunlight as the children, released from their spell, rushed out, yelling, into the springtime.” Ray uses this style of writing for the paragraph because he wants to put a message out that the children in the story needed to be free and were so happy when they did but did not realize the effect they made on margot. (Bradbury 2). This shows that the kids are free and they now know what the sun feels and looks like. Ray used this in his story purposely, to tell the reader that Margot is telling the truth; the kids did this out of