All Summer In A Day Summary

The children are painfully jealous of Margot, therefore, hurting her because of their own pain. Since Margot was different than the others and stood apart, one of her classmates shoved her and mocked her while she looked out at the rain. Margot didn’t respond to any of this jealousy, as it says in the text “But she did not move; rather she let herself be moved only by him and nothing else.” The kids kept mocking, shoving and yelling at Margot because she thought that the sun would come out. The problem progressed so much that the children grabbed Margot and locked her in the closet so she wouldn’t see the sun that just came out in seven years. That sentence in the text was “They surged about her, caught her up and bore her, protesting, and then pleading, and then crying back into a tunnel, a room, a closet, where they slammed and locked the door.” This shows how mean her classmates were, they knew that

The movie and the story are similar and different. The first similarity is they both take place on Venus. Another similarity is the sun only came out for an hour. The differences were they had more detail about the sun lamps. They also had sun kits. The last on is in the book they said that it has been raining for 7 years, and in the movie it says it was 9 years. These are 5 ways they were alike and

In the beginning of the story it said in paragraph 34-35 that after when William said something the kids said “You wouldn’t remember anything from that long ago”!. They were followers to William and not doing what they could have done and just stayed out of it or maybe even help out Margot instead of being mean to her like William. When it William put Margot in the closet they just followed instead of saying something or even going to get the teacher and tell on him and what he is doing.They were ruining their only way of happiness too because if they didn't follow in William's footsteps they would've been better off without him. In the end they were the ones who told him that Margot was in the closet they must've felt even worse at the end of the story because of what they realized what they have done to her. This is proof that the children changed in the

Margot wrote a poem in class about the sun and all the other kids denied the fact that Margot wrote the poem, out of pure jealousy. Later in the story, on the day the kids are going to see the sun, the teacher leaves the room. The kids then start picking on Margot, but Margot does not want to play in their cruel games. Margot goes on to talk about the sun, “It's like a penny,’ she said once, eyes closed. “No it's not!’ the children cried. ‘It's like a fire,’ she said, ‘in the stove.’ ‘Your lying, you don't remember!’ cried the children.” This quote demonstrates the jealousy of the kids, because they will not except the fact that Margot has seen the

We have observed two different short stories, one called “Examination Day” by Henry Slesar, and another called “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury. “Examination Day” is about how when a person becomes 12 years old they have to take an examination determining their intelligence. Anyone with an intelligence above the norm is considered unacceptable. Anyone smarter than the norm is eliminated. The story focuses on a very intelligent boy taking his Examination, and getting killed for being too smart. The story “All Summer in a Day” is about a colony on Venus that faces constant rain and the sun shining once every 7 years. The story focuses on a girl Margot, from earth who is harassed by the others on Venus since she remembers the sun being

Not only did they exclude her but they also hater her for her differences, for the absence of colour on “…her pale snow face, her waiting silence, her thinness and her possible future.” They acted on this hate and “…put her in a closet…” and caused her to miss the sun coming out. They excluded her from all the fun they had in the sun but more than that, they made her miss the event she had been looking forward to since she came to this planet five years ago. By showing us this, Ray Bradbury successfully explains to us how Margot is different from the rest of the children in the way she acts and because of this difference she is ostracised and hated.

Try conceptualizing a world with perpetual rain. This is the world that Bradbury creates in his short story, “All Summer In a Day. A group of scientists and their children live on Venus, a planet that only sees the sun for an hour every seven years. The kids that immigrated here are only 9 years old. They do not remember the sun, as they have only seen the sun once, 7 years ago. But, there is a girl named Margot. Unlike the other kids, she was born on earth and moved to Venus 5 years ago. She has distinct memories of the sun. This causes her to stand out from the other kids. The loss of the sun causes her to grieve. The children living on Venus treat Margot mercilessly in jealousy due to her prior knowledge and experiences. This causes Margot to be a victim of depression, harassment, and denial.

Kids can be  cruel when they are envious as shown in the short story, “All Summer In A Day,” by Ray Bradbury. The sun is what makes Margot happy, and when that gets taken away from her. In this short story there is several acts of cruelty to Margot by her classmates. These kids live in the planet of Venus, and they haven’t seen the sun in seven years, except for Margot. The kids are only nine years old so they haven’t seen the sun since they were two years old, but Margot moved there from Earth when she was four and she remembers the sun and that makes the other kids envious. In the beginning of the story it is the day that the sun is supposed to come out for the first time in seven years! The kids were skeptical except for Margot because she wanted to see it so bad. The kids were starting to prepare for the sun to come out but they were sitting inside waiting. While they were waiting the kids decided to lock Margot in a closet and not let her out. When the sun came out all the kids ran outside to play in the sun that felt so warm and nice on their skin, except for Margot, who was sitting inside in the dark closet. When the kids came back inside they felt sorry for leaving Margot in there. Envy can lead people to commit awful acts and cause shame as demonstrated throughout the character's actions in, “All Summer In A Day.”

“It has 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 of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands.” (Bradbury, 1954) In the dystopian story, “All Summer In A Day” by Ray Bradbury, it takes place on the planet, Venus. A group of children, along with scientists get to live there, while being educated at the underground school. Margot, who is only 9 years old, wasn't born on Venus like the other children, but instead on Earth. She’s the only one who remembers how the sun felt through her skin and how beautiful it shined. On the contrary, the other children are jealous of her because she has some memory of the sun, while they don’t. Jealousy caused the children to harass, isolate, and make her depressed.

This is because they don’t have any memory of what it felt to feel to sun’s rays on their skin. Regarding to a metaphor that says¨ remembered a warmness, like a blushing in the face, in the body, in the arms and legs and trembling hands.¨ ( Bradbury,1954) As a result of their lack of knowledge about the sun Margot is the only one who can only tell what's missing. Leaving her in a state a depression. This is significant because without the knowledge Margot has, they go to a state a denial. Adding on, denial of the children create a mindset a disbelief.

The short story All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury is about how jealousy can lead to regret. In addition, the story reveals how some people don’t think before they act. All summer in a Day is about people inhabiting Venus. The sun only comes out once every seven years for only two hours. The story is magnified around Margot who is a girl that doesn't get understood by the other children.

At the climax of the story, the sun comes out and the children come to life. The setting is now alive and full of vibrance. “[The sun] was the color of flaming bronze, and it was very large. And the sky around it was a blazing blue tile color. And the jungle burned with sunlight as the children, released from their spell, rushed out, yelling into the springtime” (Bradbury 3). The sun is now present through vivid description, and it is no longer a dim hope but an omnipresent flame of freedom and beauty. The children become more wild and joyful now that the sun is present in their waking world:

For example jealousy, kindness, think before you act, and many other lessons you can take from All Summer in a Day. The kids thought that Margot was a weird and different kid, because she saw the Sun and was bragging about it. That’s when the kids made their big mistake. That shows how jealousy can apply to this short story. Many think that the theme should be about kindness but that doesn’t give a good message because the kids aren't kind.

Since the children are so young they refuse to listen to the truth of what Margot says, and because of that she is hated. "No it’s not!" the children cried. "It’s like a fire," she said, "in the stove." "You’re lying, you don’t remember !" cried the children. But she remembered and stood quietly apart from all of them and watched the patterning windows.” This proves the stubbornness of the children because they refuse to acknowledge that even a little bit of what Margot is saying might be true. Because of this Margot is forced to keep her opinion to prove herself, but that only furthers the gap between her and the other children.

The author makes the reader understand this theme through some text evidence in the end of the short story. For example its says “ Then one of them gave a little cry. ‘Margot !’ ‘What ?’ ‘She’s still in the closet where we left her’ ‘Margot.’” These piece of evidence shows that after all of Margot’s classmates bullied her and violently pushed her in a closet, are feeling regret. They have a feeling of sorrow because they know they have done something that should not have happened. Ray Bradbury provides multiple text evidence, such as “Behind the closet door was only silence. They unlocked the door, even more slowly and let Margot out.” This scene also shows a sense of deep regret from the kids who did the horrible act to Margot. They know that the consequences that they will face, such as Margot doing bad stuff to them or the teacher punishing the kids, will be