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Compare And Contrast If Only We Had Tall Been And All Summer In A Day

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In both “If Only We Had Taller Been” and “All Summer in a Day” you see that both stories talk about how the people want something that is out of reach and that if you want something that bad you need to work hard for it if it is something that you can achieve. One way Bradbury wrote the two stories different is in “If Only We Had Taller Been” you have to have perseverance to be able to orbit mars you also have to work hard to train for it and what to do if something goes wrong. While in “All Summer in a Day” Margot had to have patience to wait for the sun to come out and when it finally did she wasn't able to see it so she had to wait even longer. One way that they are they are the same is that both of the pieces of work are based around

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