All Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury

Maya Jain: Every morning we wake up to the sun that radiates through the windows. The sun ─ like the splash of yellow paint on a blank canvas ─ fills the once dark sky with a perfect circle of light. The sun that holds a sort of exuberance and a sense of excitement comes out almost every morning without fail. At the end of the day, the scorching sun colors the sky with streaks of red and orange, and the next morning rises once again. The sun is certainly something that we take for granted. In the short story titled “All Summer in a Day” written by Ray Bradbury, this story takes place on Venus where everyone lives in no sun and instead, perpetual rain. The only sun that comes out is once every seven years for a couple hours. In this dystopian short story, jealousy and grief are present throughout many different parts of the story. Margot the main character had lived on Earth until she was three ─ she had the very fortunate opportunity of being able to experience the sun every single day. The students didn’t have this experience and grieved the sun that they had dreamed of. They envied the fact that Margot recalled what the sun had looked like and they only knew the rain. Through the use of characterization and vivid details, Bradbury communicates that jealousy and grief can cause people to commit cruel acts. The author writes a myriad of encounters between Margot and her classmates that proves that this is, indeed, the theme of this story.

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