Summary OfAll Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury

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

Thesis Statement (1-3 sentences) - Her past experiences and opportunities caused the children of Venus to be jealous of her. As a result, the children harassed Margot in disbelief. The gloomy, enclosed environment affects everyone greatly. The message of the story shows how the environment and the people around you can affect you because of their own lack of experiences. The author portrays this when the children harass the main character, he also uses craft moves to show isolation of the main character, and how depressed she is as a result.

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.

In the story “All Summer In a Day”, Margot’s class mates are jealous of her and describe her as different, because in the story it states, “Margot stood apart from them, from these children who could ever remember there wasn’t a time without rain, rain, and rain.” The

Fitting in can be a major challenge for anyone in life. It is hard to stay true to yourself, while also fitting in. In the novel The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman, a young girl named Honor struggled with this major challenge of fitting in. She kept isolating herself from her classmates. Fitting in is also a major theme in the short story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury. The main character Margot is a young girl who was very different than her classmates. She was teased for her differences because she remembered something her classmates didn’t remember, and she can’t let go of this memory. Allegra Goodman and Ray Bradbury both develop the theme of fitting in in their novels;

In the short story “All Summer in a Day”, the author Ray Bradbury uses sensory imagery such as sight and sound to describe the setting of his version of planet Venus and to describe the children. He then uses the absence of sensory imagery when describing Margot to create contrast which helps us understand the idea that people who are different are 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.

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

The story begins on the day where the sun is predicted to appear on Venus for the first time in seven years. The children are discussing if they think the sun will really come as they’re looking out the window for it. Here is where Margot first talks about her experience with the sun. Her classmates do not believe her, and they bully her. Although, she was bullied for speaking about the sun, she still continued to talk about it.

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.

Author, Ray Bradbury, in his futuristic novel “All Summer in a Day” tells the story of a 9 year old girl who recently moved to the planet Venus and how she is judged for her difference. She is made fun of and mocked by her fellow classmates who have lived on Venus all of their lives. They don’t believe anything she says about Earth and the sun, therefore she is a little antisocial and only talks when they discuss Earth or the Sun. Since this book is about a futuristic society, its differences include that it rains a lot and the Sun only shows every 7 years, hence why the kids wouldn’t believe what Margot told them.

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.

Did you know people get pressured into doing things very easily, just like how the students in the story got pressured into locking Margot in the closet. The author Ray Bradburry wrote "All Summer In A Day" and is about a girl who lives on venus and gets bullied for remembering the sun, which later she misses the sun for getting locked in the closet casued by the students . Margot gets bullied because she knows the sun and everyone is jealous because the students don't remeber how it looks, William is the bully who pressured the students into locking Margot in the closet.

Theme is something that most people take for granted. It’s often seen as something elementary. But, there is greatness in such simplicity that isn’t really that simplistic at all. Such is proven in Ray Bradbury's All Summer in a Day where one of the many themes is that the knowledge you have can sometimes set you apart from others in unpleasant ways such as not being able to connect with someone on a personal level, being marked as an outcast, and not being taken seriously.