A World Without Sunshine

In Ray Bradbury short story "All Summer in a Day" We find pour selves in Venus were a human civilization has been set but in Venus it only rains without stopping for seven years until for one hour the sun comes up.The story talks about a little girl who was born in earth and knows how sun really feels like that is why her classmates hate her. The day the sun is supposed to come up they lock her up in a closet and go outside to enjoy the hour of sun they have every seven years. When the hour is over all the children start crying and remember they locked Margo in the closet and go unlock her that is where the story ends.

In Bradbury's story we can find a lot of imagery that is what makes him famous as an author. The use on imagery  in his stories does not only bring to life the story but also makes us think we are there in the story like in the next quote."It was as if, in the midst of a film concerning an avalanche, a tornado, a hurricane, a volcanic eruption, something had, first, gone wrong with the sound apparatus, thus muffling and finally cutting off all noise, all of the blasts and repercussions and thunders, and then, second, ripped the film from the projector and inserted in its place a beautiful tropical

slide which did not move or tremor (3)."

 Bradbury is in this quote referring to the sense of hear to enhance what the children heard when the rain finally stopped and make the reader realize how hard and long it rained in Venus.Also by writing this he is able to make the reader picture and hear in his mind how rain or hurricane sounds.Furthermore in the story we can also see a lot of characteristic so that the reader can picture how the character is like in his personality or physically.For example:

"He gave her a shove. But she did not move; rather she let herself be moved only by him and nothing else. They edged away from her, they would not look at her. She felt them go away (2)."

This shows us that Margo is strange and different from all the children born in Venus and the kids do not like her or are jealous because she has felt the sun before. By looking at this quote we can see that Margo is shy and is not like the other children. We can see she is ashamed in front of her classmates because of being different and lonely because there is no one like her.

This story shows us a great message that nothing is forever and we should enjoy the moments we have.Also it gives us the theme of importance of memories.If we whine and cry about what we don't have and don't tank what we have then when we loose it we will have nothing to thank for.The imagery and characterization found on the short story does not only bring it to life but also makes us picture and feel as if we were there making the story a delight to read.

Release

It has happened a lot since Jonas has not been drinking his stirring pill. After some days the elders declared an unscheduled Holiday in which kids and adults could rest, After Jonas found his friends he found them playing a warfare game which made Jonas very disappointed and sad that they didn't know what they were really playing. Jonas wanted to know about the failure ten years before so he asked the giver who she was and he told him she was called Rosemary and that she was released together with the memories which returned to the people. It has been a while since Jonas has been wondering about what release meant so he asked The Giver and both watched a video of the release his father had accomplished that morning.  This was the way Jonas understood that release meant death and became really disappointed with his father for lying about it. That same night The Giver and Jonas made a plan so that Jonas could escape to elsewhere and bring all the memories back to the people. At the end of the chapter the Giver left us with a huge discovery which states that Rosemary was his daughter.

"As he continued to watch, the new child, no longer crying, moved his arms and legs in a jerking motion. Then he went limp. His head fell to the side, his eyes half open. Then he was still" (Lowry 150). 

This is really sad and made think that if they do not know how to respect a life how they will respect their own life. But we also have to consider that it is the only reality they know and they think that what there are doing is right. Even doe if a war happened they will kill a lot of people and wouldn't have guilt about it because they don't have a religion to tell them what is right and what isn't including they don't have the memories. This shows us the importance of memory cause without them people do not know what they are really doing and what it means they don't even understand that it’s a life what they are taking away. Memories are the ones that tell us what we did wrong on the past so that we don't do it again and makes us realize the feeling we have toward that memory.

On the next chapters I predict Jonas will escape safely to elsewhere causing the memories to return to the people who react on panic and cause a civil war. Jonas hearing of what has happened returns to the community to find the giver but he finds himself with the news he has been released. Now it is Jonas job to help the people and find a new receiver so to pass his memories to when he grows , he chooses Gabe and decides to raise him as a son and marry Fiona breaking the rules of the family unit form. All the community while change to how it was before when all the people had the memories available.