Ray Bradbury's All Summer In A Day

A good quantity of people are weary of their same old routine, with perhaps the same people, the same sky every day greeting them. In All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury, it becomes evident that people will do anything to find an escape from their reality. Several pieces of plot evidence and the choice of words that Bradbury uses illustrate this motif. Venus and Earth are more kindred than most realize.

As some may argue, the only thing you have at the end of the day are your memories. For the kids in the story, this is distinctly realistic. One example of this in the narrative is, “Sometimes, at night she heard them stir, in remembrance, and she knew they were dreaming and remembering gold or a yellow crayon or a coin large enough to buy

In the story, there was nothing the kids would not relinquish. Case in point, when the bright sun at last came out, Bradbury described the kids’ reaction, “But they were running and turning their faces up to the sky… letting the sun burn their arms… squinted at the sun until tears ran down their faces… they ran and ran in shouting circles. They ran for an hour and did not stop running.” (Bradbury 3, 4). This clearly exhibits the fact they were willing to do anything, even harm themselves, to finally circumvent from the relentless, pouring, rain. Furthermore, it becomes obvious that when given the opportunity to leave their reality for one hour, the kids didn’t give it a moment’s thought. By way of illustration, “The door slid back… the children, released from their spell, rushed out, yelling into the springtime.” (Bradbury 3). When the sun finally showed itself, they were exhilarated and barely thinking. Therefore, the kids practically ran over one another trying to get out. One of the contradictory arguments may be that the adolescents only did these things because they knew it would be seven years until the next time, and they wanted to take advantage of the single hour. While this may be accurate, the only reason they wanted to run around initially is because it was an opportunity for them to run from their real life; to get a taste of a fleeting sun before the rain could

It may be a rather cruel outlook, but it is exactly what the children in the storyline did. For instance, “They surged about her, caught her up and bore her, protesting, and then pleading, and then crying, back into a tunnel, a room, a closet, where they slammed and locked the door.” (Bradbury 3). Margot was regarded by the kids to be a hazard to their life on Venus. She was a constant reminder to them of what they used to have; what they’re missing out on. Margot remembered everything they didn’t. Put unadorned, they were envious of her. To corroborate, “There was talk that her father and mother were taking her back to Earth next year… And so, the children hated her for all these reasons…” (Bradbury 2). Consequently, they did everything they could to ultimately still attain that escape they wanted, which resulted in throwing Margot in a closet. They removed her from them physically, therefore removing her from them mentally. The kids bully her into oblivion. People opposed to this may be of the opinion that Margot would always still be in the back of their minds, meaning that putting her in a closet was not an escape. The evidence from the story contradicts this, as the children had a glorious time when Margot was not around them. Moreover, when their main escape (the sun) came to a resolution, that’s when all their other escapes concluded as well, and they became aware of what