Searching for Summer by Joan Aiken, is a tale of a dim-light world, due to the drop of an atomic bomb. People are on the hunt for a glistening of sunlight all through the lands, though none have any luck. People in this world take so many luxuries for granted, and this story peeks into the idea of this. In this futuristic novel, Tom and Lily, which are two newlyweds, that are going on the search to feel the warmth of the sun on their pale faces, run across a man greedy for the sun, then a blind man that has never seen the sun, yet always has the sun. This is an ode to the world and how people do not appreciate what they have until it is gone, and this is an opening into the future, and how it could all end, and how this could be life.
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Ms Hatching’s son, is blind. Never even seen the light of day, yet he lives in the one spot where a “dusty golden square of sunshine” lives. Where Tom and Lily come from, the tea is the color of dust, the road is gray and gritty, and all things evoke a depressed and gloom emotion because of the thick cloud that refuses to lift. Look to the land that the Hatchings are on, and it is lively and energetic, blazing geraniums are in bloom, bees murmur, tea cups are crowned in red and gold, and the tea is tawny and sweet. Quite the difference. On the journey out, Tom and Lily meet people that what to find this coveted sunshine and make it into a resort or a money-making spot and ruin it, they want to be greedy with it. “Lido, trailer site, country club, holiday camp—you wouldn’t know the place. Land around here is dirt cheap; I’d buy up the lot. Nothing but woods. I’d advertise—I’d have people flocking to this little dump from all over the country.” (line 114) These people are so greedy for this warmth from the sky, that all they want to do when they get it, is use it for themselves. But little Mr Hatching loves it, he cherishes it, he