Every bit of writing is written from an author’s heart, they are written to be read. That author wants us to feel what they and their character felt in that exact moment. They tie in their beliefs and the lessons they have learned through what the characters do, say, and learn. Some beliefs will scream at you, while others are much more subtle, but there is never just one. This is the same with the two short stories, “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury and “Ponies” by Kaj Johnson. “All Summer in a Day” is told from the point of view of a nine year old girl named Margot, who has lived on the planet Venus for five years. Of all the other children Margot is the only one who remembers the sun. “Ponies” is about a girl named Barbra and her pony, …show more content…
The kids on Venus were jealous of Margot because she had seen the sun, “And then, of course the biggest crime of all was that she had come here only five years ago from Earth, and she remembered the sun, and the way the sun was, and the sky . . . ” After the Venus children saw the sun they realized Margot was still locked in the closet, “Margot.’ They stood as if someone had driven them, like so many stakes, into the floor. They looked at each other, and then looked away . . . They could not meet each other’s glances. Their faces solemn and pale . . .” The Venus children were so jealous that Margot had seen the sun that they locked her in a closet and accused her of lying. The Venus kids were blind to her as a person until the sun came out and went away again. Only then did they remember …show more content…
People will always pay the price, just not usually in the most obvious ways as it was in “Ponies” by Kaj Johnson. Sunny, Barbra’s ponie, paid the price with her own flesh, though sometimes people pay more that they expected, “But I already cut off her wings and horn! . . . Two of the three you said!’ . . . TopGirl says. ‘That’s what you do to be OneOfUs. But the ponies pick their own friends. And that cost, too.” TopGirl made Barbra and her pony-Sunny- pay to fit in with TheOtherGirls. TheOtherGirls made Sunny pay for everything, and when she refused to give them what they wanted, TheOtherGirls made her pay in a whole other way. “No,’ Sunny says suddenly. ‘Not even for this.’ Sunny spins and runs, runs for the fence in a gallop as fast and as beautiful as a real pony . . . They pull her down before she can jump the fence into the woods beyound. Sunny cries out and then there is nothing, only the sound of pounding hooves from the tight circle of ponies . . . The ponies break their circle and trot away. There is no sign of Sunny . . .” Suny would not give up her voice to TheOtherGirls so she paid with her life, because the other ponies ate
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.
Before the shift in his life, Ponyboy, Johnny, and Two-Bit were walking Cherry Valance and Marcia to Two-Bit’s house from the drive in so that they could drive the girls home. On the way there, Ponyboy and Cherry started talking about each other’s lives like Pony’s brothers, the Greaser and Soc quarrel, and Soda’s horse, Mickey Mouse. They also talked about sunsets when Ponyboy thought, “It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset” (Hinton 40-41). He starts to realize that there is no difference between people because they were all human on the inside. All of them should be able to live together and should be helping each other out, but instead fight over nothing like children. By this point, Ponyboy is starting to expand and grow from his own little realm and feud between the Greasers and Socs. However, this feud caused a series of events to lead to the death of Johnny, Dally, and Bob. Bob’s death causes Johnny and Pony to run away, but the church they were staying at caught on fire from a cigarette. There were a group of children in there because they were having a school picnic and were playing inside. They were there at the wrong moment, although Johnny and Ponyboy were there to save the kids. In the heat of
One possible main idea is that this short story is about how actions lead to regret. Support for this theme comes at the end of the story, where the children are described as stakes driven into the ground. This regret came after the children denied Margot the ability to be out in the sun after it had finally come out. Another theme is that the allure of rare things or events can induce powerful emotions. Support for this is present during the end of the story, where the kids run around in the sun and experience joy like never before. A final argument for the theme can be made of the idea that people never realize how much things are worth until they are gone. Evidence for this theme takes form in the shape of a depressed Margot, who is always sad and moping in the story, something that the author says is because she misses the sun on Earth. Although all of these themes have some support, none of have enough evidence and backing to be the true
The quote means that one of the boys were making fun of Margot’s amazing poem about the sun but it wasn’t appreciated by anyone else. Another example of this is when the kids pushed and shoved Margot because she didn’t want to speak to them.
Except that it doesn’t. Pony seems to be losing his mind, his balance, and his good grades. When his English teacher tells him to write an essay ‘ one from the heart, about something meaningful to him ‘ he realizes that he can share the story of the three dead boys with the world, and maybe make a difference in the lives of others. So, turns out, the story we’ve been reading is really Ponyboy’s English
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.
“It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain”. Imagine being on the planet venus which is stormy and dark, with only the sun coming out for 2 hours every 7 years. Life in the short story, “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury describes that life is different on Venus because the sun only appears for only 2 hours every 7 years. This story takes place on planet Venus. In an underground building where kids have their education taught with. And one of the kids who lives in that building, on the planet Venus, is Margot. Margot is a 9-year-old kid who only arrived on Venus 5 years ago. Margot is currently being harrased because she has seen in the sun. Since she
Jealousy is a theme shown throughout the whole short story, and is shown through the children eyes. The girl Margot is different from her classmates. She remembers the true beauty of sun, but the other kids have no knowledge of remembering. Margot’s remembrance is what fueled the other children’s anger and jealousy, because they don’t have the privilege of remembering. For example, the story repeatedly states how Margot remembers the Sun, and how she has constantly told and informed the other kids about it. But the other children deny her claims, and are consumed by their jealousy. Their jealousy corrupted minds then lead them to do some terrible and thoughtless things to Margot, which lead themselves to sorrow and regret. The effects of
It’s always cold and raining, and the sun only comes out for two hours on one day every seven years. Margot is a schoolgirl who moved from planet Earth. She’s depressed because she misses the sun and the other children don’t seem to like her. On the day the sun comes out, the other children lock Margot in a closet so that she can’t see the sun.
In All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury, Margot isolates herself from her peers because she does not accept their society’s opinions of the sun. The children welcome all those who conform to their ideals of their naive society, yet Margot distinguishes herself as a pariah and distances herself from her peers. William and his peers scorn Margot which brings upon her loneliness and unhappiness. An example of this is, “They edged away from her, they would not look at her. She felt them go away… And then, of course, the biggest crime of all was that
Most kids are influenced by what their parents do and how they treat them. In “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury, the kids’ parents want them to be safe and have a good childhood. In “All Summer In a Day” by Ray Bradbury, the kids want to see the sun very desperately and they would do anything to see it because they have been waiting for a very long time. In both books they use dialogue to show and how the characters acted because they wanted something very badly. It also shows that desperately wanting something can change your life and other people’s lives for the worse or the better.
As the sun began to hide behind the clouds and began to rain, Margot felt the rain to drip down her face. As she stood in the rain, her classmates then came to give her the flowers that they had got for them.
Authors use several literary elements to create short stories. They choose elements to create a plot in the story and other details. In his short story “All Summer in a Day”, Ray Bradbury tells about his character Margot who moves to Venus after living on Earth. She has seen the Sun but those living their lives on Venus have never seen the Sun because it only comes out every seven years changing the weather from constant rain to sunshine. She finds herself being the misfit of the class and having everyone be jealous of her. In this short story, “All Summer in a Day”, Bradbury uses figurative language to show the importance of the Sun in the setting and the theme of the story.
The story starts off with these children bullying Margot out of jealousy of how she was able to remember and picture the sun, and because she was quiet and continued to allow it to happen. For instance, “when the class sang songs about happiness and life and games her lips barely moved. Only when they sang about the sun and the summer did her lips move as she watched the drenched windows.” It’s clear how this quote shows that her memory of the sun was