Pitter Patter Day

In Rick Bragg’s “Endless Summer,” the author conveys his nostalgia and portrays how, to him, summer has changed for kids as time has progressed. He speaks about how summer seemed to last so much longer back then- stating that time “didn’t fly. It lolled.” Obviously, time can’t actually change speeds, this just emphasizes how slow it felt to him as a child. Furthermore, summer felt so prolonged, it was almost as if it would never end. The statement “When did summers grow short, truncated?” has a strong tone of discouragement, letting the reader know that he yearns to feel this way again, and hopes that the children nowadays and forthcoming generations are able to experience this sensation. The number of summer days has never changed, but a mix

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

Artists, in general, attempt to make each of their works different, in spite of the methodology being identical. In the case of two of Ray Bradbury’s stories, All Summer in a Day and If Only We Had Taller Been, this statement is verifiable in some components, yet not in others. They correspond in the setting, theme, and style, but nonetheless, they differ in conclusion, emotion, and developing. Reading both storylines creates a realization and understanding of not only the author, but also the hidden messages.

    To begin, the author shows that the harassment Margot goes through is due to the children’ lack of knowledge about the sun since they have spent their whole life on Venus. Throughout the day, Margot brings back memories of the sun.

Over the course of history there have been many philosophers, scientists, and geniuses that have grappled with the human spirit, and how humans interact with one another. Ray Bradbury adds his name to that list with the short story “All Summer in a Day.” In this story, Bradbury uses realistic and fantastic elements, and plot structure to create and emphasize the theme that man despises all that is different.

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.

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.

She has the chance to go back to Earth and see the sun every day, while they don’t. Also, since they are jealous that Margot remembers the sun, they ignore her and refuse to listen to her. “‘It’s like a penny,’ she said once, eyes closed.” The children denied, “No it’s not!” Though Margot tried to convince them,“It’s like a fire in the stove.”

Being Venus-born, none of the children are old enough to have ever seen the sun, except Margot. She reminisces aloud about the sun, saying it looks like "a fire in the stove." Margot's classmates are too immature to understand or believe her, so, out of spite, they lock her in a closet. Whenever she speaks about the sun, the children do not believe that

Everyone needs to believe that things are going to get better, particularly when facing challenging or troubling times. Our world is fraught with sadness, misfortune, and adversity, and the world constructed by Ray Bradbury in “All Summer in a Day” is no different. Unending rain, gray skies, and endless dark doldrums beneath the surface of Venus plague the lives of the young children in his short story. And yet, every night when they go to sleep, the young protagonists hope for more. Despite being surrounded by a gray plague of ceaseless rain, the children dream of the sun. In “All Summer in a Day,” Bradbury uses the sun throughout the text to symbolize hope.

The short story all summer in a day by Ray Bradbury is about the power of desire and how it can lead to doing something that people tend to regret. First, readers will learn why the theme is true by reading about when the children locked Margot into a closet. Next, there will be more evidence supporting the theme. Finally, the third and fourth paragraphs will be acknowledging other people’s themes and making arguments towards them.

“Good morning!” Ray said to his coworkers while walking into the office. “Morning Ray.” Many replied. Ray’s tall slender figure towered over his desk as he looked down on a ton of files. He grabbed his coffee, then got to work.

Imagine living on a different planet, but being isolated and friendless. This happens to a girl named Margot in the short story, “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury. Margot is treated poorly by her classmates throughout the story. In the story, several scientists, along with their children, occupy underground tunnels on Venus. It seems perfect-minus one problem. It is constantly raining, for seven years in a row. The sun is said to come out on the day the story takes place, and Margot can’t wait. She is the only one of her classmates who remembers the sun, since she moved to Venus when she was five. However, the envious children grab Margot and shove her in a closet. The sun comes out, and they play and delight in its warmth. When it goes away, they remember Margot, and, heads hung low, they let her out of the closet. The children of Venus are harsh towards Margot because they are jealous of her. Because of this, she becomes isolated, depressed, and is constantly harassed by her peers.

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.