Imagery And Symbolism In The Sun By Ray Bradbury

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The sun “..was the color of flaming bronze…” bronze is an alloy color of brown, using color symbolism, the light that the sun produces, it represents comfort and endurance (Bradbury, N.D., 3). The sky surrounding the sun is the color of blue. Blue, symbolizes stability, security, and unity. The sky, influenced by the sun, reaches the state of stability when the sun provides comfort. The sun also “... burned [the jungle] with sunlight…” (Bradbury, N.D., 3). This demonstrates that the jungle progressed with the sunlight. As it soaked up all of the sun’s comforts, the jungle prospered and endurance was given to keeping prospering, causing the season where everything starts to renew itself, springtime.

The children were presented with the sun’s light which showed them what happiness was under all …show more content…

Their “...tears ran down their faces…” meant that they are now progressing thus exited on a newly found trait (Bradbury, N.D., 4). The blue color symbolism is also presented in this section, it symbolizes the calmness of the children as they “...breathed of the fresh, fresh air and listened... to the silence...in a blessed sea of no sound and no motion” (Bradbury, N.D., 4). This demonstrates

This quote in “All Summer In a Day” demonstrates that the children lack empathy, they are not able to understand others, that is why “the children pressed to each other…” aggressively pushing each other (Bradbury, N.D., 1). Roses and weed are used as similes to represent 2 different inferences of the children’s traits. People ordinarily like roses, roses could represent excitement, passion or love. People usually hate weeds, which could represent envy, jealousy, or inexperience. These different types of character traits help

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