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All Summer In A Day Comparison

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In life, everyone loses something they once loved. This could mean something like the Sun, a friend who moved or who is not as close to you, or something like a family member. The text “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury has a girl named Margot, who moved to Venus and desperately misses the Sun and has not seen it in years. Similarly, in the song “See You Again” by Wiz Khalifa the lyrics are repeated mentioning a loss of someone and how it has been a long time without them and that they’ll see them again. In both pieces “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury and “See You Again” by Wiz Khalifa the authors use the craft moves of revealing actions to create similarities and differences in between the themes of both pieces. To start with, both themes create a sense of some kind of loss of the main character in the story and the singer in the song to reveal actions to create similarities. The main character in “All Summer in a Day”, Margot is going through harsh times as she is grieving the absence …show more content…

Ray Bradbury shows just about no hope in the ending of his story while Wiz Khalifa actually leaves the listeners with hope for a much more unfortunate event. The sun absolutely destroys Margot in “All Summer in a Day” and towards the end, it makes her basically turn into a ghost. While at the end of “See You Again” the death of Paul Walker brings Khalifa and listeners down and upset but he leaves a point that there is a chance to see Paul Walker again and that is in heaven. At the end of listening to “See You Again” and reading “All Summer in a Day” the reader is left to wonder- If someone loses something should they let it bring them down so much to basically turn them into a ghost-like Margot? While we leave the story, seeing how powerful a loss is, we are also wondering if an insignificant loss should leave someone with no

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