Emotions In Ray Bradbury's All Summer In A Day

In the short stories, “All Summer In a Day” and “Examination Day” their themes are related to society. “All Summer in a Day”’s theme is that not only the victim gets hurt because the bully also gets a feeling of guilt that will stay with them for the rest of their life. Ray Bradbury shows that when he says, “They walked slowly down the hall in the sound of cold rain. They turned through the doorway to the room in the sound of the storm and thunder, lightning on their faces, blue and terrible” (4). This quote is from after the other kids have spent their hours in the sun and they remember that they left Margot in the closet. They now see what they did was wrong a that they should’ve thought before they shoved her in the

Ray Bradbury’s story “All Summer in a Day” starts out on a rainy day on the planet Venus. Although it wasn’t just that day that was rainy, it’s been rainy every day for seven years. As there was a time long ago when the sun casted on this rainy planet, the children on Venus could not remember. Except for one, Margot a young girl that had just arrived from Earth four years ago. She remembers the warmth and brightness of the sun while she lived in Ohio with her family. At her new school on Venus, Margot shares her memories of the sun with her classmates. Her classmates don’t remember the sun causing them to get jealous and them to hurt Margot later in the story. This suggests that when people can’t get over their

All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury teaches us that greed, jealousy, and disbelief can make you do terrible things to others. The story is about a girl named Margot, who moved to Venus five years ago. There were already some nine year olds there. There, the sun comes out once every seven years for a few moments, and during the seven years that the sun isn’t out, it rains a lot. All the other children moved to venus when they were two, but they don’t remember the sun. Unlike Margot, who moved to Venus when she was four, and she still remembers the sun. She describes the sun as a; flower, penny, and fire. The children don’t agree with her because she remembers the sun and they don’t.

Over the course of history there have been many philosophers, scientists, and geniuses that have grappled with the human spirit, and how humans interact with one another. Ray Bradbury adds his name to that list with the short story “All Summer in a Day.” In this story, Bradbury uses realistic and fantastic elements, and plot structure to create and emphasize the theme that man despises all that is different.

The short sci-fi story All Summer in A Day by Ray Bradbury is about being treated as an outcast and reveals the alienating effects that it may have. Sometimes this treatment is brought on by others. In this case, Margot is treated in this harsh manner because she isn’t the same as her classmates and they desire to have the life experiences that she has. Being outcast may not be the only main theme for this story in each reader’s mind. All Summer in A Day provides a multitude of possible themes. This may be the case, however, the children’s physical and emotional abuse of Margot is extreme and justifies this theme. As the time draws nearer for the sun to rise, Margot’s classmates become more brash and crue and at that moment, Margot is exponentially different from the other children in hr class. This concept of being outcast and

In the short story “All Summer in a Day”, the author Ray Bradbury uses sensory imagery such as sight and sound to describe the setting of his version of planet Venus and to describe the children. He then uses the absence of sensory imagery when describing Margot to create contrast which helps us understand the idea that people who are different are ostracised and hated.

Try conceptualizing a world with perpetual rain. This is the world that Bradbury creates in his short story, “All Summer In a Day. A group of scientists and their children live on Venus, a planet that only sees the sun for an hour every seven years. The kids that immigrated here are only 9 years old. They do not remember the sun, as they have only seen the sun once, 7 years ago. But, there is a girl named Margot. Unlike the other kids, she was born on earth and moved to Venus 5 years ago. She has distinct memories of the sun. This causes her to stand out from the other kids. The loss of the sun causes her to grieve. The children living on Venus treat Margot mercilessly in jealousy due to her prior knowledge and experiences. This causes Margot to be a victim of depression, harassment, and denial.

In the short story, “All Summer in a Day,” by Ray Bradbury, our protagonist, Margot, gets harassed by her classmates for several reasons. On Venus, there is a 2 hour period every 7 years of constant rain where the sun comes out. Since Margot moved to Venus 5 years ago, she can remember the sun and has full memories of it. Margot is tormented by her classmates, the antagonists, simply because of their jealousy. This emotion empowers the behavior of Margot’s classmates, leading them to regret their actions.

“And once, a month ago, she had refused to shower in the school shower rooms, had clutched her hands to her ears and over her head, screaming that the water mustn’t touch her hair.” (Bradbury, 1954) In the short story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, Margot is a 9-year old girl who lives on the planet of Venus. On Venus, it rains every day, and the sun only comes out every 7 years. Margot is different from others because of her experiences. This is shown when she is described as antisocial, depressed, and isolated. Among many children her age, Margot is the only child who has lived on Earth before moving to Venus, and remembers what the sun looked and felt like. The other children have lived on Venus their whole lives and don’t remember the sun, as they were only two years old when they had last seen the sun.

Kids can be  cruel when they are envious as shown in the short story, “All Summer In A Day,” by Ray Bradbury. The sun is what makes Margot happy, and when that gets taken away from her. In this short story there is several acts of cruelty to Margot by her classmates. These kids live in the planet of Venus, and they haven’t seen the sun in seven years, except for Margot. The kids are only nine years old so they haven’t seen the sun since they were two years old, but Margot moved there from Earth when she was four and she remembers the sun and that makes the other kids envious. In the beginning of the story it is the day that the sun is supposed to come out for the first time in seven years! The kids were skeptical except for Margot because she wanted to see it so bad. The kids were starting to prepare for the sun to come out but they were sitting inside waiting. While they were waiting the kids decided to lock Margot in a closet and not let her out. When the sun came out all the kids ran outside to play in the sun that felt so warm and nice on their skin, except for Margot, who was sitting inside in the dark closet. When the kids came back inside they felt sorry for leaving Margot in there. Envy can lead people to commit awful acts and cause shame as demonstrated throughout the character's actions in, “All Summer In A Day.”

“It has been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain, with the drum and gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands.” (Bradbury, 1954) In the dystopian story, “All Summer In A Day” by Ray Bradbury, it takes place on the planet, Venus. A group of children, along with scientists get to live there, while being educated at the underground school. Margot, who is only 9 years old, wasn't born on Venus like the other children, but instead on Earth. She’s the only one who remembers how the sun felt through her skin and how beautiful it shined. On the contrary, the other children are jealous of her because she has some memory of the sun, while they don’t. Jealousy caused the children to harass, isolate, and make her depressed.

All Summer in A Day by Ray Bradbury is about how a little jealousy can turn into rage and reveals that children, along with adults, can be blinded by something so simple.The author of All Summer in A Day believes jealousy and bullying are the key emotions played in this short story. Bradbury claims that the main characters, Margot, is being bullied because she was Earth longer. Whereas, the other students don’t even remember Earth because of how early they all moved to Venus. When Margot arrives, she was four. The other children had arrived two years before. The author describes her as “a very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years and the rain washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the

Everyone needs to believe that things are going to get better, particularly when facing challenging or troubling times. Our world is fraught with sadness, misfortune, and adversity, and the world constructed by Ray Bradbury in “All Summer in a Day” is no different. Unending rain, gray skies, and endless dark doldrums beneath the surface of Venus plague the lives of the young children in his short story. And yet, every night when they go to sleep, the young protagonists hope for more. Despite being surrounded by a gray plague of ceaseless rain, the children dream of the sun. In “All Summer in a Day,” Bradbury uses the sun throughout the text to symbolize hope.

Imagine living on a different planet, but being isolated and friendless. This happens to a girl named Margot in the short story, “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury. Margot is treated poorly by her classmates throughout the story. In the story, several scientists, along with their children, occupy underground tunnels on Venus. It seems perfect-minus one problem. It is constantly raining, for seven years in a row. The sun is said to come out on the day the story takes place, and Margot can’t wait. She is the only one of her classmates who remembers the sun, since she moved to Venus when she was five. However, the envious children grab Margot and shove her in a closet. The sun comes out, and they play and delight in its warmth. When it goes away, they remember Margot, and, heads hung low, they let her out of the closet. The children of Venus are harsh towards Margot because they are jealous of her. Because of this, she becomes isolated, depressed, and is constantly harassed by her peers.

Theme is something that most people take for granted. It’s often seen as something elementary. But, there is greatness in such simplicity that isn’t really that simplistic at all. Such is proven in Ray Bradbury's All Summer in a Day where one of the many themes is that the knowledge you have can sometimes set you apart from others in unpleasant ways such as not being able to connect with someone on a personal level, being marked as an outcast, and not being taken seriously.