All Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury

In the dystopian story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury it takes place on a colonized planet of Venus. On Venus it always rains and focuses on school kids. Only the main character Margot remembers what the sun feels like, this is because she came from the planet Earth. For this reason many of her peers resent her and make fun of her. Throughout the story the reader can tell that the ‘darkness’ may cloud someone's judgment until they see the light. In the beginning this is shown when the story describes the kid’s experiences with the sun as, “They were all nine years old, and if there had been a day, seven years ago, when the sun came out for an hour and showed its face to the stunned world, they could not recall.” This show how they have
This also shown when the kids push Margot away from the window when the rain starts to slow.
They are jealous of her so they exclude her and don’t want her to participate with them. However, this is untrue because the jealousy in the kids comes from the fact that they have been in ‘darkness’ and they themselves have never experienced the sun. This is why the theme is not jealousy however the ‘darkness’ that takes over them. Later in the story the reader encounters another example of how the kids are compelled by ‘darkness’ when the story describes Margot as, “She was an old photograph from an old album,” this is a comparison in the story describing how she was different than the other kids because she has experienced the sun and knows something else besides the darkness. Another example is when the author describes Margot’s memories as the, ”...biggest crime...” The reason why this is a crime because she remembers what it’s like to feel the sun and they don’t. Margot also describes the sun however, the kids don’t believe her and they call it lies. This shows how the ‘darkness’ has affected them and they deny what is actually