An Analysis Of Ray Bradbury's All Summer In A Day

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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

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