Transit of Venus

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    “All Summer In A Day” by Ray Bradbury is a short story about a girl named Margot and her experiences on the planet Venus. Margot moved to Venus from Earth when she was 4 years old, old enough to remember the sun. On Venus, the sun only comes out every 7 years for a couple hours, other than this, it’s always raining. The other children on this planet bullied Margot, they were mean to her because she could remember the sun, and they didn’t. One lesson the story suggests is that when you don’t think

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    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

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    All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury is a science fiction story about a young girl who lives on Venus who learns to live without the sun. She wants to feel the sun, see the sun but it hasn’t come out in 7 years. In the beginning all of the children on Venus are crowded around the window hoping for the sun to come out, because they have never seen it, only Margot has. In the middle of the story, Margot gets bullied. They lock her in a closet before the teacher comes,because they thought she lied about

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    science-fictional short story about a girl who used to live on Earth, but is now living on Venus. Venus is a planet that is constantly drenched in rain—a planet that’s people never get to see the sun. Margot is an outcast. She came from Earth, so she was accustomed to seeing the sun everyday. But when she moves to Venus, the planet where rain falls even in the summer, her whole world comes crashing down. On Venus, every seven years the sun peeks out of the clouds for a whole two hours. But Margot doesn’t

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    Could you envision a planet that sees no sun? In the story, “All Summer in a Day,” Ray Bradbury draws us in, as readers, with a story that takes place on the planet Venus. The environment of Venus is as described in this quote, “It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain, with the gush and gush of water...fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands…”(Bradbury

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    Have you ever wondered what it’s like to live on a planet that always rains? On the planet Venus, In the Far Future, It would rain all the time. But once every 7 years. Something miraculous would happen. The sun would shine it face to the people living on Venus. But this wouldn’t last for long. The sun would only shine for 2 hours. So the kids were always be happy and excited to see it. But one child, one from earth, was mistreated just because everyone, didn't believe her when she described the

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    All of Summer in a Day is a tale from the far off future, when humanity has colonized Venus. Once every seven years for only about two hours, taking place in a class room of young children, most of which don’t remember the sun or the gentle yellow glow it gives off due to living in underground bunkers their whole lives. One child, Margo, recently moved to Venus from Earth, remembers the Sun and tries to explain it to her fellow class mates who believe she is lying. On the day the Sun is to come out

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    The piece I will be analyzing is “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury. It is about a little girl, Margot, who moved to Venus, a place where there it is constantly raining, from Earth. The story describes how the everlasting rain impacts Margot psychologically and socially, as she suffers from depression which is made worse by the other childrens’ regular bullying. After the seven years of rain, the sun comes out and brightens all of the childrens’ lives - except Margot, who is locked in the closet

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    society that lives on the planet Venus. In the beginning they all crowded around the window hoping the sun would come out. Soon Margot started getting called names and getting shoved and then put in a locked closet. In the end the sun came out for the first time in seven years but she was still locked in the closet and she was let out when the sun went back away. This story shows that Margot has trouble living on Venus. One reason Margot has trouble living on Venus because she is from Earth. In paragraph

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    “All Summer in a Day” Picture yourself on planet Venus - named after the Roman goddess of love- containing no love for any differences. In the short story, “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury it describes nine-year-old children that live on the planet, Venus. They are used to the fact that it has been raining for seven years. Every seven years, the sun comes out for two hours, otherwise, every day is gloomy. One of the girls named Margot moved to Venus when she was four. She used to live on Earth,

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