Compare And Contrast All Summer In A Day

The story All Summer in a Day written by Ray Bradbury in 1954, and directed by Ed Kaplans in 1982 has a lot of differences and similarities between the movie and the story versions. The story is originally about a girl named Margot, who moved to Venus after living on earth in Ohio. The sun on Venus comes out only every 7 years for about an hour. Margot loved the sun and believed that it would come out even though her classmates didn’t think it would. Her classmates then locked her in the closet ‘for only a little bit’ but as the clouds cleared to make room for the sun, they forgot about her. As they ran around in the sun they eventually remembered but it was too late. In this story there are many differences in how the story happens. Like how Margot gets locked in the closet,

This was very similar to the movie version when Margot stand alone protesting from William to not get her sunshine in from the machine because of the sunshine that was coming. She stood apart from the rest but it didnt really affect the story because even if it got her in an argument, William still hated Margot because he thought she was a know-it-all. What’s more is that Margot’s visual appearance was different. In the book she was described as, “rain that had washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair. In the movie she had dark brown hair. Also in the story the backstory of Margot was simular. In both the movie and the text Margot explains that she saw the sun last 9 years ago on earth everyday, in Ohio. Lastly in the end of the story we weren’t able to see her reaction to being locked in the closet. If we were we could’ve seen her personality and how she reacts to this scene. But in the movie version they all let her out and see her crying in the