All Summer In A Day Literary Techniques

“I think the sun is a flower that blooms for just one hour.”

The short story, All Summer in a Day, written by Ray Bradbury is about a nine year old girl who grew up for four years on planet Earth. All that changed when she fled to Venus where the sun comes out only for two hours every seven years. Her everyday lifestyle is drenched in rain. The author utilizes many literary techniques and devices to display theme. He crafts his story by creatively using metaphor, imagery, and hyperbole. Although many themes can be derived from this story, one in particular stands out: Bullying often occur when others are considered different.

Bradbury clearly illustrates this theme in numerous ways. At the beginning of the story, he uses a metaphor to show the theme. Bradbury depicts, “She knew they were dreaming and remembering gold or a yellow crayon or a coin large enough to buy the world with.” Margot was the only student who had the remembrance of the sun. This makes her unique in a way that she knows something breathtaking that no one else knows. The quote is describing the sun using the phrase “a coin large enough to buy the world with”. The children distinctly can agree that the sun is priceless because of their

In this story, Margot is the only one to have seen the sun before. In that case, everyone was envious because she explored the experience in living with the sun. Bradbury writes, “ The biggest crime of all was that she had come here only from Earth… they had been on venus all of their lives.” Until Margo was four years old she lived on Earth. The other children in the classroom had been on Venus their whole lives. The others looked at Margot as a manipulative, conceited girl. It was not a literal crime that she came here from Earth, she was just more involved with the sun more than any other. The hyperboles clearly illustrate the hatred that was constantly building up for Margot since the beginning of the