The Theme Of Craft Movements In Ray Bradbury's All Summer In A Day

Craft moves show themselves in different forms. These forms consist of figurative language, smiley face tricks, and others. In fact, in any book, you read you are likely to find these craft moves. Along with craft moves there are usually themes that go with them. All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury has a theme of “what goes around comes around” otherwise known as karma. All Summer in a Day is about humans who are living on Venus. On Venus, it rains heavily. This may seem rather tragic, but every seven years the sun comes out for a short amount of time (one to two hours to be exact). One day Margot, a young girl who recently moved to Venus from Earth, claims that the sun will come out that day. She was in school when she said this, and all her other classmates don’t quite believe her. When a couple of minutes passed, they decided to trap Margot in a closet because she wasn’t telling the truth. After they did that the rain stopped and the sun came out. The kids all played in the sun without Margot. Soon it begins to rain once again and the kids go back to their classroom. They completely forgot about Margot and they went back to go get her from the closet. As soon as they let her out,

These craft moves further develop the story and plot. An example of this can be found once the rain stops. The text states, “It was as if, in the midst of a film concerning an avalanche, a tornado, a hurricane, a volcanic eruption…”. The craft move used here was a smiley face trick, specifically a simile. A simile compares two things using the words like or as. The comparison the author is making here is the rain stopping abruptly and an action movie reaching its climax. This brings out the theme more because at the moment, the children are shocked, excited, and overjoyed but when the rain comes back, they will feel guilty and horrible for locking Margot