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Analysis Of All Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury

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The short story All Summer In A Day by Ray Bradbury teaches us about how jealousy can lead people to do evil things. Margot has come to planet Venus only five years ago from Earth, so the kids hated her so much because she remembers the feeling. She remembered the sun that's what the kids despised most about her. Margot thinks the sun is like a flower. Margot also said it's like a penny, bright yellow and bronze. She remembers the colors and the heat, and how it really was. The children thought they remembered the warmness and how like a cloud it was, but then they violently woke up to the tattering sounds of of the unsatisfying rain. All the children made fun of and bullied poor Margot. But what they all thought she was a bit different. Margot was different she wouldn't play with them in tag, she would just stand there and blink. All the children who lived in Venus have seen the sun one time, when they were two. But Margot does, she knows how much of a lemon it was, and how warm it feels. The kids think they remember the glow and the warmth of the sun, but then they wake up. The school in Venus they write short stories, essays, or poems about the sun. they wondered what it felt like, but when Margot did her poem or story all the kids got jealous. All the children who lived in venus dreamt about the time they will see the blazing …show more content…

When the kids heard about the prediction the scientist made they were overjoyed and cheerful. At the window of the underground house the kids stood silent and apart while watching the patterning. When the day came the scientist predicted, it kept on raining. The children laughed at Margot and said ‘ nothing is happening today!” the kids started saying “ this is all a joke!” “nothing, nothing”. Some kids cried because they waited so long for this. Margot silently said “But this is the day the scientist predicted, they study the

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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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In All Summer in a Day, Ray Bradbury uses vivid description, similes, and symbolism to show the desire to see something you’ve never seen before. The story is about a girl named Margot who comes from Earth, where she saw the sun all the time. Then she moves to planet Venus where the sun comes out every seven years. She tells her school classmates about how she remembers the sun and they start to bully her because they are jealous. The author uses a lot of description, symbolism, and similes to show the desire of the kids to see the sun.

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The short story all summer in a day by ray bradbury is about how people can’t control how jealous they are and it reveals the harm that jealousy can do to others. By them being jealous they lock her in the closet and because they did that she didn’t get to see the sun there was no point of them to do that because they were going to see the sun that day by them locking her in the closet that shows that they can’t control their jealousy and they harm margot emotionally. The short story is about how they were feeling really sad.

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In Ray bradbury’s All Summer in a Day that takes place on Venus jealousy can lead to worse things such as bullying. kids hurt others when they don't get their way. kids do bad things such as destroying things that aren’t theirs such as a human's hope.the kids make fun of a Margot's poem in the story because she had been on earth in Ohio. the kids lock Margot in the closet because she was remembering the sun from earth.

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