Ray Bradbury's All Summer In A Day

Helen Keller once said "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." This applies to all people who are going through a challenge, this means we have to go through the dreadful times to get to the better times in life. The horrible things we experience are what make us who we are. One day on the planet Venus, Margot the protagonist, a nine year old girl from Earth is faced with the task of adapting to her new life on Venus, facing challenges that bullies introduce to her. Margot is staring at the window waiting for the sun, since it only comes out every seven years for one hour. William, one of her classmates asked in a

For example, "The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds, intermixed, peering out for a look at the hidden sun." (1) The sun is yellow, and Ray uses the brighter color such as yellow, to symbolize excitement. When there were still clouds but the rain was slowly slackening, everyone of the kids wanted to have a look on what the sun was going to look like, but when the sun finally went away all the kids became sad, “The girl, standing in the open, held out her hand. "Oh, look, look," she said, trembling. They came slowly to look at her opened palm. In the center of it, cupped and huge, was a single raindrop. She began to cry, looking at it. They glanced quietly at the sun."Oh. Oh."” (4) Another example like this would be, "It was the color of rubber and ash, this jungle, from the many years without sun. It was the color of stones and white cheeses and ink, and it was the color of the moon." (3) The sun is never out, so the plants aren’t as green, as the some of the trees on Earth. So the people who live on Venus have a pretty much black and white life almost literally, since everything outside, doesn’t see the sun too much, causing the landscape to be bleak. Finally the last instance we see color factoring into the story is, "They surged about her, caught her up and bore her, protesting, and then pleading, and then crying, back into a