Analyzing Ray Bradbury's 'All Summer In A Day'

Cadence Dunkel

ELA 8/9

March 15, 2023

“All Summer in a Day” By Ray Bradbury

Can you imagine how it would be to have your entire summer in a day? In Ray Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day," Margot and everyone else experienced the same thing. Every 7 years, Venus rains for one hour, which these kids don't get to see very often, if at all. Margot is the protagonist in this story. She is a pale, blue-eyed, blonde-haired girl who moved here from Ohio a few years ago. According to her, she knows/remembers what the sun looks like. I like the way the author kept bringing up these moments on how she remembered the sun no matter what the other kids said. Then the antagonist William came along he kept on degrading her yet she kept her confidence up. She

From there she then wrote a poem on it when the students had to part take in an activity about the sun. After she composed the poem it went like “ The sun is like a flower, That blooms for just one hour” this is a beautiful fragile poem that made my heart warm along with the teacher. Although it wasn’t compatible with Williams's cold heart because after she recited the poem he glared at her and blurted out “Aw, you didn’t write that” in a sassy tone. The teacher scolded him, but that wouldn’t have helped. This is William trying to contradict Margot’s belief which is vulgar and unpleasant. Something a little boy shouldn’t be doing just because he doesn’t have the same point of view as her. This poem showed that even though she may not have seen the sun she still remembered it and was able to tell about it how she believed it to

He started to tease her for still having hope for the sun to come out. A couple of the things he said were, “Nothing?” when Margot's lips started moving but no words had come out and then he opened his lips and in a displeasing way said “Nothing is happening today. Is it?” when she had still hasn't composed a word she only gave a tempered stare. It made her seem weak by not speaking, but you could feel with the author's technique of writing that by her body motions, she was proving her own point. It was almost as if you could see the silence affecting everyone's mood making their confident cockyness levels go