Back From Venus
They unlocked the door, even more slowly, and let Margot out. Margot walked past them, saying nothing. She stopped in front of the teacher, glanced up, then continued to stumble out of the building into the rain and it struck her, until the weight of her clothes dragged her down. She soon arrived home, drenched from head to toe. “Did you see the sun, Margot? Oh, it was the most beautiful thing; I miss the Earth so much!” blurted Mrs. Ravenswood as she stretched recalling the sun's rays brushing her face. This was the most gratified Margot had seen her mother since she was four years old. Mr. Ravenswood grinned at his wife’s expression.
“No, I missed it,” Margot looked down still dripping in the living room, dabbing a towel
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The only reason they came to Venus was because it’s less expensive to live here. Her mother was silent the rest of the day, but when the phone rang she perked right up. A couple of weeks ago Margot’s mother called into a radio station to win a free ride back home although the family doubted they’d win. Even though she knew they didn’t have much luck, she crossed her fingers until her mom came to tell her the good or bad news. Mrs. Ravenswood walked into the room with the phone and put it on speaker instead of torturing Margot to wait to be told. “Congratulations Ravenswood family. You have three tickets to travel to… Earth!” Margot’s mother shrieked with glee. Later that same evening, the family loaded onto the ship. As soon as take off was over and Margot saw a few constellations, she went right to sleep. She woke up trying to unglue her eyelids from each other along with her legs from the chair she was laying on. As the family got off the rocket after landing, Margot’s mouth dropped in amazement; it was as if she was in the future with all the technology around her. Her mom, dad, and herself took a train to the station, then drove to the old farm they lived on. All of their cattle were alive and well because the neighbors took care of
In the story it says, “About how it was like a lemon, it was, and how hot . . . I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.” This connects back to my idea that outcasts are sometimes the solution to society’s problems. Due to this quote, Margot’s statement about the sun is what makes her an outsider in the eyes of society. Later in the passage, it is revealed that Margot’s statement about the sun was correct and solved the problem of what the children think the sun resembles.
Margot goes to school with classmates that resent her. They hate her for having seen the sun, something they wanted so badly. This jealousy led to an overwhelming hatred that they were reminded of any time they saw her. Her classmates let their hatred take over and they locked her in a closet as revenge for the pain she had caused them all. But unlike Wendy and Peter from The Veldt, Margot was affected negatively from her classmateś actions.
The characterization that Ray Bradbury gave Margot was shy. She was shy because she never talked in school. For example, in the story it said ‘’well don’t wait around here.’cried the boy savagely “you won’t see nothing” her lips moved. “nothing” he cried. When the boy talked to her she didn’t say anything because she was too shy. The only thing she was confident about, is talking about the sun. She knows for sure that it is going to come, even when everyone else doesn’t think so. Margot is also very unlucky. She has been waiting a long time to be able to see the sun again, but unfortunately she was stuck in a closet and didn’t get to see the sun.
One possible main idea is that this short story is about how actions lead to regret. Support for this theme comes at the end of the story, where the children are described as stakes driven into the ground. This regret came after the children denied Margot the ability to be out in the sun after it had finally come out. Another theme is that the allure of rare things or events can induce powerful emotions. Support for this is present during the end of the story, where the kids run around in the sun and experience joy like never before. A final argument for the theme can be made of the idea that people never realize how much things are worth until they are gone. Evidence for this theme takes form in the shape of a depressed Margot, who is always sad and moping in the story, something that the author says is because she misses the sun on Earth. Although all of these themes have some support, none of have enough evidence and backing to be the true
As the sun began to hide behind the clouds and began to rain, Margot felt the rain to drip down her face. As she stood in the rain, her classmates then came to give her the flowers that they had got for them.
As shown above, the nonexisting sun played an immense role throughout the story. It was like the cause for the conflict and the central idea of the plot. It was also the element that caused the external conflict. The lack of sun and the constant presence of rain made this story. Overall, the setting was a major aspect in the story. To conclude, Bradbury highlights the conflict between Margot and her classmates by using a strong plot, a detailed setting, and
It’s always cold and raining, and the sun only comes out for two hours on one day every seven years. Margot is a schoolgirl who moved from planet Earth. She’s depressed because she misses the sun and the other children don’t seem to like her. On the day the sun comes out, the other children lock Margot in a closet so that she can’t see the sun.
All of Margot’s classmates were all extremely angry and jealous of her, they treated her very poorly. This was because Margot had last seen the sun at an older age than her classmates had, she was four years old, and everyone else her age was all two years old the last time they saw it and none of them had any memory of it. When she described the sun her classmates did not like that at all so they got very mean and angry, they said she was lying and didn’t remember it. A young boy in the class said it was a lie that the sun was coming out that day, Margot said it was not a lie. Then they locked her in a closet before their teacher arrived. And this was all because they were jealous, so they
The kids were so jealous of her that they stuffed Margot in a closet where she was waiting, while the children experienced the stopping of the rain. The school children were willing to take away the thing she desired most, just to get revenge on someone who never meant to hurt them, even if it meant getting in tremendous
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
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