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Compare And Contrast All Summer In A Day

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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, …show more content…

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

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The short stories “The White Circle” and “All Summer in a Day,” share a similar concept of how you should be careful who you trust, they could turn on you in the end. “The White Circle” focuses on a mutual hatred between Anvil and Tucker where's “All Summer in a Day” the other children don’t really turn on Margot until they lock her in the closet again. “All Summer in a Day” is about a group of young school children who live on Venus. One of the students’ names is Margot. She moved from Earth to Venus, wheres all the other children have lived on Venus their entire lives.

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One similarity emerging in both stories is that the antagonist are jealous of the protagonists because they are different. In “All summer in a day,” the children are jealous of Margot and her memory of the sun beating on her skin. They all sat at the window beaming like a full moon. "You’re lying, you don’t remember ! " The children would often say to Margot as she tried to explain what the bright sphere.

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In “All Summer In a Day” and “If Only We Had Taller Been” both by Ray Bradbury he illustrates many themes throughout both stories. One theme they both have in common is don’t let anyone get in the way of your dreams. Bradbury does an excellent job of displaying this theme in both stories. While these stories have their similarities they both have their differences. The theme of “All Summer in a Day” is to not let your jealousy get in front of your kindness.

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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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And this was because she would play no games with them in the echoing tunnels of the underground city”(Bradbury, 3). Margot stands alone and doesn’t try to talk or hang out with the other children. Her need to belong is very harsh. The other kids are jealous of her, because when she was a kid she saw the sun, and she wants all the others to believe that she actually did see it.

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