Ray Bradbury's All Summer In A Day

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In Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” the main character Margot goes through a rough time during schooldays at her school on the planet Venus. Ever Since just moved there from Earth she is seen as an outsider, but since she remembers what the sun looks like, unlike her classmates, they envy her. Since the sun only comes about once every seven years on Venus, the classmates technically “saw” the sun but they were 2 years old and most likely don’t remember the experience. So the whole idea behind Margot having the picture of what the sun looks like generates jealousy for her, because the classmates remember nothing about the weather other than it always raining on Venus. Today though, is the day scientists predict that the sun will shine on Venus…. for a hour. Though the classmates believe that the sun will not come out, Margot on the contrary hopes that the sun …show more content…

When explaining that the sun is possibly coming out Bradbury tells us how Margot deeply feels about the sun, he shows us that Margot lives to see the sun or be in its presence. In the text they tell us “She remembered the sun and the way the sun was and the sky was when she was four in Ohio,” and give us insight on how she loved the sun. So when these kids take the sun away from her they don't really understand what it truly means to Margot, showing that these children did not paying attention to Margot properly to understand how bad of a decision it was to put her in a closet. Also Bradbury tells us that the classmates hate Margot because of her physically characteristics of everything there is about her, they judge the paleness of her face, her silence, her thinness and future. When the kids are doing this to Margot they don't take into consideration that she is born with that paleness and many traits she has. It's rude that they even dislike things about her she doesn't know how to