Literary Analysis Of All Summer In A Day

Evidently, the plot of the story has a lot to do with the overall setting. The setting of “All Summer in a Day” takes place on the planet Venus where it rains all year round. “The setting is the time and place in which the story takes place. Settings can be real or fictional, or a combination of both real and fictional elements” (Literary Devices, 1). The setting is very important to this story because it’s centralized around the climate. On Venus, the sun only shines for about one hour every seven years. Bradbury writes, “It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain, with the drum and gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion

The few characters used in this story all play a prominent role. The main character and protagonist used in “All Summer in a Day” is Margot. Besides Margot, the other character used is William, her classmate, who is the antagonist. The other characters who are unnamed are the children in Margot’s class in school. Lastly, there is the school teacher. While introducing and describing these characters, Bradbury uses direct and indirect characterization. Direct characterization “consists of the author telling the audience what a character is like” (Literary Devices, 2). He uses direct characterization to describe Margot. She is nine years old and seen as a delicate, pale child. He writes, “She was a very frail girl who looked as if she’d been lost in the rain for years and the rain had washed the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair” (Bradbury, 2). He describes her this way to show how her sadness, and how the lack of sun has physically affected her. She is also different from her classmates because she lived on earth until she was four years old, while they have lived on Venus for as long as they could remember. Since Margot moved to Venus later, she remembers bits and pieces of earth, like the sun shining, which causes a rift between her and her classmates. The children bully Margot since she is different than them. The space between Margot