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:
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 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.
