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Character Change In All Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury

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In the short story “All Summer in a Day,” author Ray Bradbury portrays different examples of character change which helps to reveal a common theme, don't resent others because your actions cannot be taken back and that will surely lead to guilt. The following quote is taking place in a schoolroom on Venus where the students are waiting for the sun to come out after 7 years since it had been raining. The main character, Margot, is standing alone and isolated from her classmates because of her differences, such as her birth on Earth, and her memories of the sun on Earth. This makes her classmates envy her and make them jealous, concausing them to treat Margot like an outsider, resulting in Margot to face conflict between her classmates. The author …show more content…

"” (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.The author uses different types of dialogue to help the reader to express Margot's classmates' fury towards her behavior and the things she has in her life. The author uses exclamation marks to paint a picture and an environment in the reader's mind to indicate the conflict within the scene. The author also uses character behavior and body language to meet a similar goal, to indicate the reader of the conflict. The word “savagely” in the quote emphasizes that Margot’s classmates dislike her which further develops the way the author reaches out to the reader in order to prove that Margot’s differences are changing the way …show more content…

This quote is taking place near the closet where Margot’s classmates had put her in and forgotten to take her out to see the sun.The author emphasizes regret through this key piece of evidence in the text, “"She's still in the closet where we locked her." "Margot." They stood as if someone had driven them, like so many stakes, into the floor. They looked at each other and then looked away: They glanced out at the world that was raining now and raining and raining steadily. They could not meet each other’s glances.(Bradbury 82)”The author reveals a change in the characters from the short story and develops the reader's understanding of the theme that Ray Bradbury is trying to recognize throughout the story. This quote clearly emphasizes how the students' feelings of envy towards Margot are changed to sorrow due to their actions and the way they treated Margot. Consequently these actions later led to guilt that was shared among the classmates who had begun to realize their mistake of locking Margot into the closet and theifing her oppurtunity to see the sun away. Additionally, the text uses descriptive language and figurative language to empower the message being delivered through the short story. The text uses similes to emphasize a common point of regret being

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