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All Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury

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Jack Nolan Mrs. Thompson ELA Period 3-4 2 February 2023 Title The short story, “All Summer in a Day”, written by Ray Bradbury is about a nine-year-old girl named Margot and other children living on the planet Venus. In this story, Venus experiences extreme rainfall and dreadful thunderstorms every day. If you live there, you only get to see the sun for one hour every seven years. Margot, on the other hand, moved to Venus five years ago from Earth so she remembers exactly what the sun looked like. The other kids tease her and call her an outcast since she is different from them. The author utilizes many literary techniques and devices to display the theme. He crafts his story creatively using figurative language, imagery, and dialogue. Although many themes can be derived from this story, one particular theme stands out, jealousy is destructive; it can make people selfish and hurt other people. Jealousy can lead to intense emotional experiences and can also result in physical harm. Margot stated when referring to the sun, “It’s like a penny,” she said once, eyes closed. “No, it’s not!” the children cried. “It’s like a fire,” she said, “in the stove.” “You’re lying, you don’t remember!” cried the children (Bradbury 2) This piece of evidence illustrates that they were jealous of Margot for having …show more content…

I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour. That was Margot’s poem, read in a quiet voice in the still classroom while the rain was falling outside. “Aw, you didn’t write that!” protested one of the boys. “I did,” said Margot. “I did” (Bradbury 3). Bradbury’s use of a metaphor helps the reader visualize the situation and feel Margot’s emotions. William shows jealousy towards Margot for her use of the sun in her writing and it upsets him that she knows what it is really like, so he bullies

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‘I did’ ‘William!’ said the teacher.” The children are jealous of Margot since she saw the sun and they didn’t. Their “solution” to their problem was to ignore whatever she had to say and to bully her. Since the children are jealous of Margot they portray such bad attributes towards Margot.

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In “All Summer in a Day,” the children are thriving to see the sun, they would even be happy to just remember what the sun looks and feels like against their snowflake white skin. Margot, on the other hand does remember the sun and often talks about the bright light bulb that lights their planet once every seven years, to the others. However, there is a turning point when the children become jealous and treat Margot differently because to them she is set apart from them. " Hey, everyone, let’s put her in a closet before the teacher comes ! "

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According to the text All Summer in a Day,”Margot stood alone. She was very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years and the rain had washed out the blue from her eyes and red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair.” This supports my theme because the children judge Margot based on her appearances and some of the thing she does. But the children don’t understand that you don’t need to be beautiful to be smart or right at

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She would always describe to the other kids even though she knows they won’t believe her. She would describe the Sun as a penny, a stove on fire, and even, “The sun is a flower, that blooms for just one hour”(Bradbury,p.g2). She shouldn’t have kept on talking about the Sun because it makes the other children feel envious. This is so significant, because Margot knows that what she says about the Sun is mortifying to the other children because they don’t remember how the Sun looks like.

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In the beginning, the classmates refer to her poem of not her writing it. Margot’s classmates refuse to believe that she wrote ”I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour” (Bradbury) After will criticizers

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Jerry is that one character that had a huge impact on me. I think in many ways he had an impact on many people he didn 't go with the crowd and he did pay the punishment for that. Jerrys disturbed the universe caused a lot of trouble in the all boys school of Trinity. He had a small influence on the other boys, but it was one Jerry Vs. all the vigils.

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Margot is a girl from Ohio who now lives on Venus. The jealousy is because out of all the kids in this class, she is the only one who remembers what the sun was like from when she lived on Earth until she was four, and which now they are all nine years old.

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Here the text states, “They were dreaming and remembering a gold or a yellow crayon or a coin large enough to buy the world with...they remembered a warmness, like a blushing in the face, in the body, in the arms and legs.” (Bradbury 1). Even though they barely remember the Sun, it is still such a big part of what makes them human. The Sun is what keeps the children going even if they don't know

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In All Summer In a Day by Ray Bradbury talks about people living on venus. In the passage venus is always raining and that affects the character in the story. In PG 155 It say that venus is always raining it 's always dark and gloomy. Forest’s being washed out, and high and low tides.

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In life we can all relate to the feeling of longing for something. In All Summer in a Day, Ray Bradbury’s characters’ lives are clouded with rain and the only see the sun once every seven years. Bradbury uses metaphors, emotions, and repetition to express the sun’s meaning of hope to the main character, Margot, and the children of rocket men and women on Venus. Metaphors and emotions are used to help the reader relate to the connection with the sun. He describes the sun and the rain using metaphors, and uses the children’s emotions to help further the idea.

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Theme: Jealousy/Envy Quote #1: “There was talk that her father and mother were taking her back to Earth next year; it seemed vital to her that they do so, though it meant the loss of thousands of dollars to her family. And so, the children hated her for all these reasons of big and little consequence.” This quote shows how the students are envious of the fact that Margot is going back to Earth soon, and how she will get to be in the sunlight. Quote #2: “The biggest crime of all was that she had come here only five years ago

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All Summer in a Day Author's Craft Essay In life, people never truly realize what they have, until it's gone. Imagine having to wait seven years for the sun to come out again, but only for a few hours and then disappearing again for another seven years. Well for the kids of Venus, that is typical life. Ray Bradbury's All Summer in a Day uses a variety of author's craft such as imagery, similes and metaphors to show readers the childrens deep need for freedom away from the rain that consumes their lives.

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And this was because she would play no games with them in the echoing tunnels of the underground city”(Bradbury, 3). Margot stands alone and doesn’t try to talk or hang out with the other children. Her need to belong is very harsh. The other kids are jealous of her, because when she was a kid she saw the sun, and she wants all the others to believe that she actually did see it.

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