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Ray Bradbury's All Summer In A Day

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Dale Carnegie once said “Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get.” This quote is perfect for Ray Bradbury’s short story All Summer In A Day, which takes place on Venus where it rains for seven years with only an hour or two where the sun comes out. Margot had moved to Venus five years ago with her family and can remember all the little details about the sun, whereas the children who grew up on the planet have never even seen the sun. They start to feel jealous when Margot talks about the sun. Some people think that the theme is that when you're caught up in your own pain you sometimes wind up hurting others, but the message this story is telling us is that if you don't treat people nicely then karma will come back around to you. This is shown when Margot remembers the sun, the kids locking Margot in the closet and the kids letting her out of the closet. Throughout the entire story Margot misses the …show more content…

‘"Margot." One of the girls said, "Well… ?" No one moved. "Go on," whispered the girl.’ This sentence shows when the kids remembered about Margot in the closet after the sun was gone and the rain started again. They are feeling ashamed at themselves for leaving Margot in the closet when she needed the sun more than any of them. Another quote from the story is “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. They walked over to the closet door slowly and stood by it.” These lines are setting up a very tense scene as the children are walking down the tunnel to the closet containing Margot. This leads us to believe that the children are very nervous to let her out because they don't know what will happen once they let Margot out or the trouble they will be in for locking her in the closet during the time that the sun came

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