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Figurative language and theme english 12
English 12 figurative language
Figurative language and theme english 12
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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.
As Bradbury opens the short story, he uses figurative language
that explains the theme and setting of the story to show why it is important to the characters. As the children and Margot are in the classroom, the Sun is described as, “[...] yellow crayon or a coin large enough to buy the world with” (Bradbury 1). This figurative language shows how the setting is significant, especially the sun; which is also praised in Margot’s poem later on. The reader now understands that the sun is an important part of the story to the characters while also explaining the theme of how jeaolousy is a negative thing. Later, the children are outside and the sun is described as, “It was the color of flaming bronze and it was very large. And the sky around it was a blazing blue tile color” (Bradbury 3). This figurative language continues to explain the importance of the Sun to the people of the planet Venus. Bradbury uses it to lead the reader deeper into the significance of the setting and the theme of the short story. The themes of jealousy and bullying are revealed through the setting and the use of figurative language in Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day”. Figurative language and other literary devices are used to create the setting and theme of the short story. By using this and other literary techniques Bradbury allows the reader to enjoy the story. He shows that the use of literary techniques are essential for writing short stories.
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.
One of the things in the story that is repeated a lot is the hot sun.
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.
Authors use literary elements throughout short stories to give an overall effect on the message they give in the story. In his short story, “Doe Season” by Michael Kaplan, illustrates a theme(s) of the hardships of not wanting to face the reality of death, losing of innocence and the initiation of growing up. Kaplans theme is contributed by symbolism, characterization, setting and foreshadowing.
image in the mind of the reader, the image of a typical town on a normal summer
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654, line 1&2). The sunlight motion suggesting a “balance of upward and downward, rising and falling” (Harris, J. 2004), resplendent in nature and indirectly influences the reader spiritually and emotionally. Jane Kenyon’s Let Evening Come (1990), uses sunlight to project an image of a slow moving late afternoon sun, which will soon slip into the darkness of night. The light through the “chinks in the barn” (Kenyon, 1990, pg. 654, line 2), gives me the sense of an aging body and soul fading into the darkness.
Ray Bradburrys All Summer In A Day teaches us that people can be jealous.It shows that more than one person can be jealous over something that somebody else has seen but not them.I think that jealousy is the main idea of the story, but anger could be another idea.This story teaches us about that people can be jealous over things.
Bradbury’s descriptions of Mars give the planet a very earthy feel. He describes the planet’s environment to be identical to earth’s environment. For example, as the Astronauts explore the planet Bradbury writes, “It was a beautiful spring day. A robin sat on the blossoming apple tree and sang continuously” (325). This is a very peculiar way to describe the surrounding of the planet because it makes it sound as if the Astronauts are on earth. Bradbury mentions that it is a beautiful spring day, emphasizing the spring season, the season after autumn, therefore symbolizing a time of rebirth and rejuvenation. The time of spring becomes a key setting component as the story begins to develop. However, along with the descriptions of the environment, the way Bradbury depicts the surroundings of Mars also make it ...
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