Literary Analysis Of Ray Bradbury's All Summer In A Day

on the day the sun came out the kids laughed at her. They laughed at her when she said today was the day. After this they locked her in a closet because they were jealous. They surrounded her and shoved her into the closet and locked her in there until the sun went away for the next seven years. Margot’s classmates did mean things to her out of jealousy like locking her in a closet.

Ray Bradbury’s short story, All Summer in A Day, is about hatred and its destruction. It informs the reader what can happen if the hatred is left unturned. In the short story, the people live on Venus, a cold, rainy planet. Venus only gets to see the sun once every seven years. Margot, a frail nine-year-old from Earth, had moved to Venus when she was four. She remembers how the sun looks, but the other kids in her grade won't believe her, and she gets bullied for it. They hate her because she doesn’t play with them, she rarely talks, and when she does, it's all about the sun.

All Summer In a Day, Ray Bradbury uses repetition, symbolism, and descriptive language to indicate how anxious the children are to leave Venus. Some of the essential examples of these author’s crafts are using the closet resemble Venus, using the sun to represent hope and giving the students character by using repetition. Throughout this short story the author shows in many different ways how using author's craft can result in creating a precise image of what he is describing.

Another reason why the children discriminate Margot was that of jealousy spawned from her opportunities. “There was talk that her father and mother were taking her back to Earth next year ...They hated her pale snow face, her waiting silence, her thinness, and her possible future.” (Bradbury, 1954) This text shows how Margot is going to Earth because of her depression. Most important of all, it also shows the kids are jealous of how will she get to see the sun every day, while the rest of the kids are trapped in a raining forest, only to see the sun for two hours. They are jealous of how she is going to Earth because she misses the sun a lot while they don’t. Bradbury writes this piece of text to show why the children

is different from the other children for several reasons, large and small. She compares the sun to a penny and fire from a stove because she remembers seeing it five years ago on Earth in Ohio, whereas the rest of the schoolchildren, who were born and raised on Venus, cannot recall the warmth and appearance of the sun. Margot does not play games such as tag with them in the underground tunnels or sing songs about happiness and life, but instead chooses to remain detached from the others and stay quiet. After her outburst in the showers that the water not touch her head, they understood that she was different and stayed away from

“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.

The story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, talks about a girl, Margot, that has moved to Venus from Earth, when she was four years old. In the short story, the young girl goes through hard times, because she is different, from another planet. The major difference between her and her classmates, is the fact that she, coming from earth, has seen the sun. On the other hand, the kids on Venus have no remembering of the sun, . Often, they also bully her physically and emotionally, just because she has seen something that they haven’t, and they start to feel jealousy towards her. The author of this story is trying to teach sto the reader that, jealousy controls people's minds in a negative way, and the consequences are majorly

In all summer in a day by Ray Bradbury shows the readers that honesty can lead too bullying. In the beginning of the story Margot created a poem that said “I think the sun is a flower that blooms for just one hour.” This poem reminded Margot of the sun when she lived on Earth and how much she misses Earth.

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.”

The short story All Summer In A Day, by Ray Bradbury demonstrates how jealousy can lead people to doing awful things. Many of Margot's classmates show hatred because she claims that she has witnessed the sun multiple times. They would sometimes even show physical pain upon her. Another lesson from the story is that people don't need to see something to believe it. Many Children did not believe what margot thought about the sun.

Knowing that after seven years of darkness and rain, the sun would come out from its hidden space in the clouds, they lock Margot in a closet. She has obviously been waiting for the rare appearance of the sun on planet Venus, and her peers lock her away because they long to have their own experiences with the sun, since she has already gotten hers during her early years, which were spent on Earth. Only once they have seen the sun, themselves, do the other kids feel somewhat bad about what they have done. “Then one of them gave a little cry. ‘Margot...

In All Summer In A Day, Ray Bradbury shows the consequences that come with cruelty, and reveals that jealousy can cause people to be cruel to others. The story teaches us to not be cruel to others or else we will face the consequence of guilt. Margot is a student on Venus. On Venus, the sun only comes out once every seven years. Margot hasn’t seen the sun since she left Earth to go to Mars. She’s so excited to see the sun for the first time in a long time, but her classmates have different plans

All Summer in a Day, by Ray Bradbury illustrated that regrets can come from the power of desire. After Margot finished reading her poem, some of the students raged with jealousy. Even though she missed this time in the sun, she still has had much more time in the sun. Since she saw the sun daily until she was four, the other kids only saw the sun for two hours in their life. It will be ten years between times of seeing the sun for Margot now. The effects of this, led the kids to feeling very guilty. Throughout the story, it teaches readers that the power of desire can lead to regrets and unbelievable

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

“I think the sun is a flower. That blooms for just one hour…” (Bradbury, 1954). In “All Summer in a Day”, by Ray Bradbury, humans have colonized Venus. But life is difficult. Forced to live underground by the endless thunderstorms, the rocket men and women only get to see the sun once every seven years. Among them is a young nine year-old girl named Margot. Having lived on Earth, unlike the other children, she remembers the sun and how it felt. However, she behaves like an outcast, and rumors of her being taken back to Earth fly through the underground civilization. In the story, the other students are cruel to her because of her memory of the sun. The civilians on Venus act harshly to Margot, and together their actions create an immeasurable amount of hatred for her. Bradbury’s wide variety of craft portrays this quite well. Through accusations, lack of authority, and craft the author uses, Margot undergoes a very hurtful experience during her time on Venus.