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Literary Analysis Of All Summer In A Day

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“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. To begin with, the children show their jealousy by locking up Margot in a closet because of something she thought would happen that day. The scene starts off with Margot saying, “But this is the day, the scientists predict, they say, they know, the sun..” (Bradbury, 1954) One of the boys cut her off and don’t respond as well to what she says. By doing so, he and the rest of the children gang up on her to put her in a closet. As Margot refuses to be shoved in the closet, the author describes the following scene as, “They surged about her, caught her up and bore her, protesting, and then

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