In The Closet

In the short stories, “All Summer In a Day” and “Examination Day” their themes are related to society. “All Summer in a Day”’s theme is that not only the victim gets hurt because the bully also gets a feeling of guilt that will stay with them for the rest of their life. Ray Bradbury shows that when he says, “They walked slowly down the hall in the sound of cold rain. They turned through the doorway to the room in the sound of the storm and thunder, lightning on their faces, blue and terrible” (4). This quote is from after the other kids have spent their hours in the sun and they remember that they left Margot in the closet. They now see what they did was wrong a that they should’ve thought before they shoved her in the

Ray Bradbury’s story “All Summer in a Day” starts out on a rainy day on the planet Venus. Although it wasn’t just that day that was rainy, it’s been rainy every day for seven years. As there was a time long ago when the sun casted on this rainy planet, the children on Venus could not remember. Except for one, Margot a young girl that had just arrived from Earth four years ago. She remembers the warmth and brightness of the sun while she lived in Ohio with her family. At her new school on Venus, Margot shares her memories of the sun with her classmates. Her classmates don’t remember the sun causing them to get jealous and them to hurt Margot later in the story. This suggests that when people can’t get over their

The story All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury is significant because it includes figurative language, establishes the tone or mood, includes imagery, and flashes back to previous events. The theme of this story is Isolation. Margot who feels isolated in the story, isolates herself from everyone and shows signs of sadness. This story is significant to figurative language because in this sentence, “And the jungle burned with sunlight as the children, released from their spell, rushed out, yelling, into the springtime.”

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

In the story, All Summer in a day, by Ray Bradbury, the setting helps develop the mood of sadness, and depression. The author does this by making the setting dark and stormy everyday on venus. The setting makes the story gloomy at first, but when the sun comes out for one hour, it makes the reader hopeful, but the main character missed the sun. That makes the reader’s mood depressed and sad.

In “All Summer in a Day”, the students are waiting and waiting to see the sun. When Margot argues that she has seen and remembered the sun, one student becomes overrun with covetousness, and says to the others, “Hey, everyone, let’s put her in a closet before the teacher comes!” Unfortunately, the students follow the ringleader, not wanting to stick out. Margot as the one being attacked because “she [Margot] sensed it, she was different and they knew her difference and they kept away.” After Margot is locked away in the closet, the sun comes out. The students do not feel regret until they realize that Margot is still in the closet. “Margot.’ They stood as if someone had driven them, like so many stakes, into the floor. They looked at each other and then looked away. . . . They walked slowly down the hall in the sound of cold rain. . . They unlocked the door, even more slowly, and let Margot out.” The students decided to fit in and single Margot out, displaying they feel obliged to fit in. Regret as shown when they feel guilt as they let Margot out of the closet after the sun disappeared for another seven

"And the summer was over" with the end of summer also came the end of Myop's innocence. In the short story "The Flowers" by Alice Walker Myop is a young innocent girl. But by the end of the story her innocence is tainted due to a startling discovery. Through her use of diction, imagery,and symbolism Walker effectively conveys the impact of the startling discovery on Myop. Walker starts of the story very light heartedly by creating an atmosphere resembling a youthful paradise in which Myops basks in.

In life, everyone makes mistakes, it is just that some mistakes are bigger than others. Everyone has had this feeling at least one time in their life and in the story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury and the song “Apologize” by Timbaland, this feeling is the central idea of their piece. In “All Summer in a Day,” the children in the story devastate a girl named Margot because they feel she is different than them and the kids end up hurting Margot. In the song “Apologize,” a character has mistreated the main character that causes him to reevaluate life choices. These are colossal mistakes made by a person that jeopardizes someone else. Therefore, the story “All Summer in a Day” and the song “Apologize” both use revealing actions to explore the idea of regret.

Margot’s classmates end up feeling awful about locking her in a closet while the sun came out for a short amount of time. Even though they knew Margot was desperate for the feeling of sun rays on her face and the bright glimmer of fire in the sky to cause her eyes to squint, they decided to hide her from that opportunity and ultimately regret this decision. An example from the text is, “ They stood as if someone had driven them, like so many stakes, into the floor. They looked at each other and then looked away.”

In the short story All Summer In A Day by Ray Bradbury is about jealousy and it reveals that jealousy can lead to harsh actions into the future. Jealousy played a big role in this short story since the main conflict was about jealousy. And how the group of kids eventually started to do worse things to Margo later on in the story. So this is going to revolve around jealousy and how the kids were jealousy about Margo. And so that eventually lead to the kids to do to harsh things to Margo that hurt her mentally.

In “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, he uses the sun as a sentimental object to express the feeling of loss in Margot. The author uses Margot’s memory as a revealing action to illustrate this. When Margot says that states that the sun is “‘like a penny’” or that “‘it’s like a fire… in the stove’”, she is using positive attributes to describe the sun. Not only does this show her appreciation for the sun, but it shows that the sun is something that she cannot live without. She cannot stand the sun lights scattered throughout the tunnel because it does not give her the joy experienced from the sun’s beaming rays and light.

All Summer in A Day by Ray Bradbury is about how a little jealousy can turn into rage and reveals that children, along with adults, can be blinded by something so simple.The author of All Summer in A Day believes jealousy and bullying are the key emotions played in this short story. Bradbury claims that the main characters, Margot, is being bullied because she was Earth longer. Whereas, the other students don’t even remember Earth because of how early they all moved to Venus. When Margot arrives, she was four. The other children had arrived two years before. The author describes her as “a very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years and the rain washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the

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.

Being sad and depressed is something all humans go through. In All Summer In A Day, By Ray Bradbury, shows how the characters go through a hard, seven year, depressing life until the sun comes out. The days are always dark and the nights are cold. Throughout the story, Ray Bradbury uses metaphors to show how the kids feel about the sun not coming out and how they want to feel warm hearted. The students have always wanted to see the sun since seven years.

“They surged about her, caught her up and bore her, protesting, and then pleading, and then crying, back into the tunnel, a room, a closet, where they slammed and locked the door. They stood looking at the door and heard Margot throwing herself against it. They heard muffled cries. Then, smiling, they turned and went out and back down the tunnel, just as the teacher arrived” (9). This quote accurately depicts the theme I found in “All Summer in a Day.”