All Summer In A Day Theme

Once you experience something of such great significance, it is hard to let that go and move on. This universal theme can be seen in both the song “Want You Back” by 5 Seconds of Summer, and the short story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury. In “Want You Back” the band sings about a girl who they have left and will always want back. In “All Summer in a Day” the author tells about about students on Venus, who are in absence of the sun, and are grieving the loss of it too. In both of these selections, the band and the author uses imagery and repetition to convey the theme. In “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, imagery is used to convey the theme. The author writes, “...she knew they were dreaming and remembering gold or a yellow crayon or a coin large enough to buy the world with. She knew they thought they remembered the warmness, like a blushing in the face, in the body, in the arms and legs and trembling hands. But then they always awoke to the tatting drum, the endless shaking down of clear bead necklaces upon the roof, the walk, the gardens, the forests, and their dreams were gone”(1). From this, we can see that these students are truly missing the sun and the rush of happiness and joy that they get from the sun. If they are constantly having to hear the terrible sound of the rain, they most definitely are missing the sun and wanting the sound to stop. The author here is painting a picture of the scene that these children are living in and the conditions they