Ray Bradbury’s dystopian story, “All Summer in a Day,” takes place on Venus—a planet where it rains all of the time. Margot, a recent arrival on Venus, remembers what the other children cannot. She remembers the warmth of the sun and how beautiful sunshine can be. Margot is grieving the loss of the sun. The other children are jealous that she even remembers. One lesson the story suggests is that when people can’t get over their own pain, they sometimes wind up hurting others.
From the very beginning, the description and details in the story show the children’s pain. They are painfully jealous because Margot has seen the sun and they have not.
Bradbury describes how “Margot stood apart from them, from these children who could never remember a time when there wasn’t rain and rain and rain. They were all nine years old, and if there had been a day, seven years ago, when the sun came out for an hour and showed its face to the stunned world, they could not recall.” This line shows that Margot, it turns out, lived on Earth once—she has seen the sun. The other children have not, and this makes their world of dreary rain even more painful to them.
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They have experienced what Margot already knew—the warmth, the brightness, the colors. They have also lost the sun when the rain starts and felt the despair of remembering something that is gone—just like Margot. Because they can relate to her grief, they feel compassion. “Then one of them gave a little cry,” it says in the text, and they all stand there, not being able to meet each other’s eyes. They are ashamed of what they have done. Margot hurt them with her grief, and then their jealousy turned them into something they didn’t want to become, and now they all have to live with those consequences. When you can’t get over your pain—whether it is grief or jealousy—you wind up hurting
In the story it says, “About how it was like a lemon, it was, and how hot . . . I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.” This connects back to my idea that outcasts are sometimes the solution to society’s problems. Due to this quote, Margot’s statement about the sun is what makes her an outsider in the eyes of society. Later in the passage, it is revealed that Margot’s statement about the sun was correct and solved the problem of what the children think the sun resembles.
The characterization that Ray Bradbury gave Margot was shy. She was shy because she never talked in school. For example, in the story it said ‘’well don’t wait around here.’cried the boy savagely “you won’t see nothing” her lips moved. “nothing” he cried. When the boy talked to her she didn’t say anything because she was too shy. The only thing she was confident about, is talking about the sun. She knows for sure that it is going to come, even when everyone else doesn’t think so. Margot is also very unlucky. She has been waiting a long time to be able to see the sun again, but unfortunately she was stuck in a closet and didn’t get to see the sun.
Ray Bradberry’s All Summer in a Day teaches readers that when someone gets less of something, they will be more thankful when they get that something. The kids were a lot more thankful for when the sun came out, because it only came out once every seven years. When someone gets less of something they love, they will be happier and more thankful when they get the thing they love.
Helene departs from her past, which she associates with the sins of her mother. Whenever her past is referred to, usually the “Sundown House” is mentioned. The word Sundown indicates the sun setting or even the lack of sunlight. The lack of light represents a darkness or evilness. The words the and house reflect that a sole place exists where the
Margot and her classmates live on Venus. The Sun only comes out once every seven years, but the children are nine. Margot moved to Venus when she was four. The other children envy her because she remembers the sun, unlike them. On the day the Sun comes out, the other children lock Margot in a closet. “They could not meet each other’s glances. . .they unlocked the door, even more slowly.” They realized they were out of line and took their jealousy too far.
In All Summer In A Day it shows that people can be jealous over things.The kids disagree with Margot, about saying what the sun looks like.This makes them jealous because the kids only see the sun every seven years.Margot was jealous when the other kids got to go see the sun but she didn’t.She was jealous because Margot doesn’t get to see the sun for another seven years.That more than one person can be jealous over
This just shows how unreliable memory is, and even then it is one of the most important things in our lives, and it is certainly important in the book, in a way is hard to understand sometimes, because memory is such a complex thing, that humans are still making studies on.
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Margot goes to school with classmates that resent her. They hate her for having seen the sun, something they wanted so badly. This jealousy led to an overwhelming hatred that they were reminded of any time they saw her. Her classmates let their hatred take over and they locked her in a closet as revenge for the pain she had caused them all. But unlike Wendy and Peter from The Veldt, Margot was affected negatively from her classmateś actions.
Margot and Rainsford both have struggles throughout the story, but they are entirely different conflicts. Firstly, Margot thinks “She sensed it, she was different and they knew her difference and kept away”(Bradbury 194).
Most people are very convinced that they have memories of past experiences because of the event itself or the bigger picture of the experience. According to Ulric Neisser, memories focus on the fact that the events outlined at one level of analysis may be components of other, larger events (Rubin 1). For instance, one will only remember receiving the letter of admission as their memory of being accepted into the University of Virginia. However, people do not realize that it is actually the small details that make up their memories. What make up the memory of being accepted into the University of Virginia are the hours spent on writing essays, the anxiety faced due to fear of not making into the university and the happiness upon hearing your admission into the school; these small details are very important in creating memories of this experience. If people’s minds are preset on merely thinking that memories are the general idea of their experiences, memories become very superficial and people will miss out on what matters most in life. Therefore, in “The Amityville Horror”, Jay Anson deliberately includes small details that are unnecessary in the story to prove that only memory can give meaning to life.
You can also see that all the kids agreed with William, William is jealous of Margot because she knew more about the sun more than them. They are not sure about what she is saying because they have only ever seen the sun once but they were only two years old. In this section of the story, you can see that everyone was not paying attention to anything that they did to Margot (Locking Margot in the closet with no food or water). This relates back to the theme because since nobody believes her she is the only one that actually knows what the sun looks like and no matter what she does or what she does say she is still the one that always stands
In the beginning of the short story the author described Margot of being more of an outsider. As the author
Many people thought memory as one thing, either they would remember things or forget about them (AUTHOR, 269, PAGE NUMBER).
...t, I always assumed that rain was simply a type of weather. To me, the word rain was used as a clarification to help viewers understand. However, rain is so much more than just a clarification on the weather channel. Rain is associated with several emotions ranging from cleansing to depression, love to anger, and life to death. Sometimes I wonder if life would be better without rain; there wouldn’t be as many natural disasters or frequent reminders of depression. But then I imagine not being able to feel renewal and love, or see the effects rain has on life; suddenly, I realize that the positive effects of rain far outweigh the negatives. As you see the majestic rain gracefully floating down, recognize the simple beauty and importance in rain. Uncover those feelings you’ve been burying within you for so long; expose the emotions you’ve been hiding and feel free.