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    “All Summer In A Day” by Ray Bradbury is a science fiction about a girl who said she seen the sun but other kids don't believe her so they lock her in a closet so she couldn't see the sun. In the beginning, they explain how it always rains in Venus. But then it started to stop but didn't completely stop. Soon, Margo said she seen the sun but the kids don't believe her. So then the kids lock Margo in a closet. In the end the kids do see the sun and get to play in it. Then they forgot they locked margo

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    In the short story All Summer in A Day by Ray Bradbury, reveals that kids or people tend to treat people differently from the different places they are from. Its a girl from Earth that flies to Venus, where it pours down pound of rain a day as the sun comes out once every seven years. The kids think of her differently because she remembers things that they don’t, mainly the sun. The kids leave her left out, because they think she is lying on the things she says. The sun finally comes out as the kids

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    “All Summer in a Day” Picture yourself on planet Venus - named after the Roman goddess of love- containing no love for any differences. In the short story, “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury it describes nine-year-old children that live on the planet, Venus. They are used to the fact that it has been raining for seven years. Every seven years, the sun comes out for two hours, otherwise, every day is gloomy. One of the girls named Margot moved to Venus when she was four. She used to live on Earth,

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    Dark and gloomy clouds cover the gray sky as rain endlessly floods the planet Venus. No bright colors are to be found, and great jungles surround the entire planet and never stop growing. In a small school located on the drizzling planet , nine-year-old Margot stands apart from her fellow classmates, all of them waiting for the sun to come out again. 7 years ago was the sun’s last appearance, and the children on Venus eagerly wait for the sun to show itself one more time. However, they don’t entirely

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    story, “All Summer in a Day”, a group of scientists had journeyed to the planet Venus, an ever-raining world, to set up a civilization and continue with their lives. Many of the scientists are raising their offspring. One of the nine-year-old children is Margot. But instead of being born on Venus, she comes from warm, sunny Ohio; she came when she was four. She is considered different from the other children of Venus because she has memories of basking in the sunlight, while the others do not. Margot

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    They Were and Golden Eyed”, wrote stories with incredible details. His story “All Summer In a Day” takes place on the planet Venus where it is always dark and rainy. “All Summer In a Day” focuses on the main character Margot who has moved from Earth; it also focuses on how Margot’s previous life on Earth separates her from the other children. Bradbury uses the setting on Venus in an array of ways, all of which give the story more depth, he uses the location to “create” characters and to set the mood

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    at night is the fact that the sun will come out tomorrow, to experience it’s true glory, for the first time on the planet Venus. Unfortunately, she was locked in a closet by the envious bullies that were jealous of her superior experiences. In the story “All Summer In a Day” by Ray Bradbury, the main character, Margot, is upset because of the constant rain on the planet Venus, and the persistent torments by the envious bullies due to the jealousy that the children feel about her experiences. Thesis

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    All summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury a science fiction story about a girl named Margot who moved to Venus at a very young age of four. On Venus it always rains so Margot can only see the sun for two hours every seven years.In the beginning of All Summer in a Day,we find out that a girl named Margot gets bullied in her classroom. We also find out that Margot will be able to see the sun after five years. Soon after we find out that the children shoved Margot into a closet so she couldn't see the

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    Summer in a Day” has loneliness in it because their was this one girl that was from earth and moved to Venus. In Venus they only see the sun every seven years and for only two hours. Margot remembered what the sun looked like when she was back in Ohio but none of the kids believe her. So she was different from everyone and

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    All Summer in a Day The short story, “All Summer in A Day”, by Ray Bradbury, was written in 1954. This story is about how people live in a planet called Venus. In Venus, it always rains. The last time the sun came out was seven years ago. It is always rainy there and people are tired of seeing it rain. One of the major events that happens in this story is that one day the sun comes out, but not for long. The mood in the story shifts from exciting to defeated to remorseful. In the beginning of

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