All Summer In A Day Summary

Anisha Virmani
Imagine this: For almost your whole life, you lived on another planet, another world, where all it ever did, was rained. Day after day, year after year; incessant rain. Well, for introverted, little Margot in the story, “All Summer in a Day,” this is an everyday situation. Margot lived on Earth when she was a little girl, but when something came up, she had to courageously move to Venus. Margot’s classmates have lived on Venus their whole life and had almost never seen the sunlight come out, and the rain stop. This follows up to the overlying theme that author, Ray Bradbury, expresses: When people let jealousy get the best of them, it can change them completely. First, there’s a clear difference in the children’s behaviour in the beginning of anger and jealousy, versus the end where there was respect and sympathy. For example, near the start of

Near the beginning of the story, Bradbury writes, “It had been raining for seven years; thousands of 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 of the islands.” The craft move being used here is imagery. He creates such a vivid description of how the children must have felt when all they could see was the rain. It helps bring the reader into the novel, and know what the kids felt. Another example is when the author writes, “...from these children who could ever remember a time when there wasn’t rain and rain and rain.” Over hear, the craft move being demonstrates is repetition. In these two pieces of text, these craft moves add to the negative tone and almost make the reader feel bad for the kids who have to go through this and feel the emotions of them. Consequently, this gives the children a reason as to why they would be so jealous; they wanted what Margot