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Analysis Of If We Had Taller Been And All Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury

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If Only We Had Taller Been and All Summer In a Day by Ray Bradbury are similar and different in a variety of ways. Exploration is happening all the time with new planets being discovered, more of the ocean being uncovered and even new technologies we have never seen before are being revealed. A theme of All Summer In a Day and If Only We Had Taller Been could be exploration. Both passages deal with this similarly and differently. In All Summer In a Day, a girl named Margot flew across the Solar System and now lives in Venus. The first human that would have landed on Venus would have been trying to explore it. Margot,

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