Foreshadowing In Ray Bradbury's All Summer In A Day

Like all things in life, people are constantly being pushed away from their dreams due to the lack of freedom they possess. In All Summer in a Day, the author, Ray Bradbury, uses key elements such as description, foreshadowing, as well as feelings and emotions to illustrate how the children feel about their absence of freedom. Foreshadowing is represented, though this story in a couple ways, and shows the kids wanting to be able to see/do, what they want to do. For in the story, Margot had only wanted to see the sun, but this freedom was taken away from her. It is also addressed that foreshadowing seems to not play any role in making the story represent freedom. On the contrary, there are in fact many cases that foreshadowing appears in this story, and is left for interpresentation. Another key element, feelings and emotions, are what drives the children into an evil ambition. To prove this, near the middle of the piece, Margot was

locked in a closet due to the other children being driven into the depths of jealousy. One might say they were drawn to madness.
The first author’s craft that should be addressed is foreshadowing. Foreshadowing has played an important role of leaving some imagination to the reader. This was first shown in All Summer in a Day when Margot’s friend hadn’t believed her, and they’d ended up harassing her for saying that scientists predicted a sunny two hours for the day. The one thing Margot wanted was to see the sun, and she didn’t get that. Her freedom to see the sun was taken away, thanks to the angry students. Detail had also played the role of leaving clues for the reader to interpret. A great example would be when Margot was encountered by another boy in her class, “‘But this is the day the scientists predict, they say, they know, the sun…”’ ‘“All a joke’[At this point the reader should be able to figure that something negative is soon to occur] said the boy, and seized her roughly. ‘Hey, everyone, let’s put her in a closet before the teacher comes!’”
Although, it could be said that foreshadowing doesn’t correlate with freedom; there are vast amounts of hints set throughout the story. It was early into the book when the author carefully molded in foreshadowing that lets the reader infer that Margot didn’t want to have it raining all the time, and have it be sunny just once. Readers have also complained of the cliff-hanger at the end of the story, where it just ends with the children opening the closet after the rain had started up again. An interesting way of thinking of this, is that the end of the book lets anyone reading it decide for themselves, they have the freedom of thinking of their own outcome. From this, it can easily be seen how foreshadowing is used in certain parts of the literature to leave some parts of it up to the imagination.
As for the other two author’s crafts; details, and feelings and emotions also play a role in representing the lack of the children’s freedom.

When the children of the school slept, they would twitch, as they were thinking of being under the sun’s warm rays of light. They would wake up depressed, wishing that they could once more see and feel the sun. Going back to the example of which Margot was shoved into a closet, all of the students at the school let their emotions of wanting the sun and not wanting to be lied to, get in the way of Margot’s freedom. This was done very well as the details earlier set the story to be about a loner girl, who had no friends. It wouldn’t seem to make very much sense if some she had been just put in the closet with no regards to the past. This all had done an excellent job of giving the visualization that the children about this school would persecute anyone that talked about the sun and they didn’t believe. Without these elements combined, the reader, without a doubt, could not tell what was

happening.
To summarize, it can easily be seen how feelings and emotions, details, as well as foreshadowing truly let the reader mold his/her mind into understanding the absence of freedom. Foreshadowing had given just the right amount of insight to keep everyone wondering what might happen next. It let them connect to All Summer in a Day in a way most other pieces or novels never really let the reader capture. Even though it was trialed that this may not have been the case, the article left enough evidence to conclude foreshadowing to be of good use. Feelings and emotions, along with details to support and backup any misconceptions in the story. It could even be said that this lets one sympathize for the characters. This masterpiece couldn’t have been so successful without these key elements, and thanks to it having it, it shall be read nationally for generations to come.