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All Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury

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n the story “ All Summer in A Day”, Ray Bradbury tells the story of young Margot who has recently moved to Venus from Ohio. On venus the sun only comes out every seven years, the children are nine and have only been alive to see the sun once. Margot craves to move back to earth and see the sun once again. Margot dearly misses the sun and is always talking about how beautiful and warm it was. The other children are quite jealous of her. They offer for Margot to play with them but she never participates.” She would play no games with them in the underground city, if they tagged her and ran she stood there and did not follow When the class sang songs about happiness her lips barely moved” The other children did not like her for this reason. …show more content…

Following the crowd is shown a lot in this story. Such as when William is like “let's throw her in a closet “, none of the children stop him even though they should. When people follow the crowd there just trying to do what everyone else does and fit in. When following the crowd others may not recognize they are acutely hurting another person. William (the antagonist) intentionally hurts Margot over and over again even though he realizes that Margot is getting worse and worse every day. The other children don’t realize how much not having the sun affects margot, they have not experienced the sun as much as she has and do not know its …show more content…

Sometimes in the story the tone can be violent or very descriptive, such as “ ..With the sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy.. A thousand forest have been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again”. Sometimes the tone is opposite and very happy such as “They turned themselves like a ferris wheel” because they were so happy to see the sun. The children have very big emotions towards the sun because they were to young to remember it the last time they saw it

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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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When we turn old we sit and relax in the Sun, remembering how many memories we have had with the Sun, watching over them. For most of us, it is impossible to imagine what life would be like without it, but this is just how life is for the children of Venus. “All Summer In A Day” is about a group of children that live on the planet, Venus. On Venus, the Sun only ever comes out once every 7 years, so the children have not seen the Sun since they were only 1 or 2 years old.

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"” (Bradbury)” This quote clearly reveals the jealousy that is causing a rift between Margot and her classmates such as her experience and remembrance of Earth when she was 4. The reader can infer that they are feeling this way because they couldn’t experience the sun and play outdoors unlike Margot who was able to experience the sun for four years before moving to Venus, Prior to the short story, it can be natural to resent someone based on the things that they have and be jealous. In this situation the children want to be free of the rain and experience the sun's joy everyday on Earth. Unlike her they cannot move to Earth so they naturally begin to disrespect her and poorly treat her instead of understanding her differences and that her remembrance of the sun was not a specific option that was given to Margot in her previous years on Earth.

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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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All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury is about the struggles of immigrants adjusting into a new country, publicizing that individuals should care and welcome newcomers to strengthen bonds as a community. Stories regarding immigrants are scattered everywhere and Margot represents one of the many handfuls. In this case, Margot is misplaced and “separate, staring at the rain and the loud wet world beyond the huge glass” (Bradbury 2). This quote displays how alone Margot is on the planet Venus. As an individual who is different from others surrounding them, it makes them feel awkward with a lingering sensation of hatred.

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They could go outside and play with their friends instead of being stuck indoors for everyday and hear the rain pouring down. Since Margot got the chance to actually see the sun unlike her other classmates, they become jealous and start to resent her. The reader could see the theme of jealousy because the classmates’ jealousy leads them to poor actions because they thought she was wrong about her prediction on when the sun was coming. The phrase, “they knew her differences and kept away” stands out in this quotation because it shows how her classmates feel about Margot because of her differences like her being born on earth and seeing the sun. Ray Bradbury may have chosen this word choice to further develop the way her classmates are backing away and staying away from her because she was different from the rest of the

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The day I found out I made the Banners team was the day my lifestyle changed. I now practice four hours a day on weekdays and six hours on the weekends. I am never home and when I am you can find me in my room finishing homework or trying to catch up on rest. In the beginning ,I felt overwhelmed and frustrated. I even considered quitting because of how physically exhausted I was.

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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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The only difference with everyone is, that it can show and present itself differently. It also comes at different times and it might affect someone greater than another. The theme statement of the story, “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury is that jealousy can make you blind and selfish to others. At the beginning of the story, the actions and things that Margot experiences, her point of view, affect how the kids are jealous and selfish of Margot, as the story progressed, revealing actions, points of view, and dialogue affected how the other kids treated Margot, and at the end of the story, the tone and dialogue affect how the kids now feel towards Margot which is guilt. These three topics in the story, “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury prove why one of the main themes of this amazing piece of writing is that jealousy can make you blind and selfish toward others.

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