All Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury
Difference is better
There is a fun game called jenga. In it one person takes a block and another person takes the next. This is a game played by young children in school and adults at parties. No matter how hard people try to communicate the message or how carefully the listener pays attention, almost always the message that comes out at the end is different than the message the game started with. Ray Bradbury, a popular science fiction author of the 1900s, wrote a story that discussed this concept. His short story called “All Summer in a Day” is about a young Earth girl named Margot who has been living on a sunless Venus for most, but not all of her life. Margot is different than the other students in her class because she was born on Earth and remembers the sun. All in all, the story is about how seemingly small decisions can lead to disastrous outcomes. In the story Margot is locked in a closet during the small period of time Venus’ rain stops. The story’s theme is differences should be celebrated because of Margot’s contributions to her class, and their negative reactions. …show more content…
At the start of the story it mentions a time when students were all sharing stories about the sun. Margot relates her poem, “I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour. That was Margot’s poem, read in a quiet voice in the still classroom while the rain was falling outside” (Bradbury 1). Margot’s poem was said in a small voice. While the other students were comparing the sun to what they think it is like, Margot states that it is as she remembers it. Unfortunately her strong statement, the sun being a flower, is lost on the class because she speaks quietly and her voice seems to contrast her large ideas. Because of this, the Margot’s message is lost. All blame cannot be put on Margot however; the students also lacked an understanding of her causing communication
There is a fun game called jenga. In it one person takes a block and another person takes the next. This is a game played by young children in school and adults at parties. No matter how hard people try to communicate the message or how carefully the listener pays attention, almost always the message that comes out at the end is different than the message the game started with. Ray Bradbury, a popular science fiction author of the 1900s, wrote a story that discussed this concept. His short story called “All Summer in a Day” is about a young Earth girl named Margot who has been living on a sunless Venus for most, but not all of her life. Margot is different than the other students in her class because she was born on Earth and remembers the sun. All in all, the story is about how seemingly small decisions can lead to disastrous outcomes. In the story Margot is locked in a closet during the small period of time Venus’ rain stops. The story’s theme is differences should be celebrated because of Margot’s contributions to her class, and their negative reactions. …show more content…
At the start of the story it mentions a time when students were all sharing stories about the sun. Margot relates her poem, “I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour. That was Margot’s poem, read in a quiet voice in the still classroom while the rain was falling outside” (Bradbury 1). Margot’s poem was said in a small voice. While the other students were comparing the sun to what they think it is like, Margot states that it is as she remembers it. Unfortunately her strong statement, the sun being a flower, is lost on the class because she speaks quietly and her voice seems to contrast her large ideas. Because of this, the Margot’s message is lost. All blame cannot be put on Margot however; the students also lacked an understanding of her causing communication