All Summer in a Day
All Summer in a Day
The short story All Summer in a Day, by Ray Bradbury, is a fictional tale with a theme based upon friendship and childhood experiences. The reader delves in to this world and we’re faced quite early on with the harsh realities that not all childhood experiences are good ones, especially not for the main character in this story. In this instance, we follow the hardship of the lead character as she faces bullying from her fellow students and this of course leads the reader to feel sympathetic towards her. The writer, from the first few paragraphs, gives the impression of a lonely child and by including symbolism to reflect her location and her circumstances and irony to maximize this mirroring effect of place and emotion, he creates an instant feeling of sadness for her. Mr Bradbury not only uses language to bring forth this feeling of sympathy for the child but he uses the story setting and characterisation also.
The title of this story sums up the very basic idea of what this tale is about. All Summer in a Day is about a single day in which, for a short time, summer appears and then vanishes once again. Based on the far away planet Venus, it tells of a little girl Margot and her classmates that experience what Venus only experiences once every seven years, summer. Margot is the lead character and originally from planet Earth, she relocated to Venus with her family when she was four years old. Venus couldn’t be any more different to planet Earth, with its constant rain, clouds and storms. Margot misses Earth terribly and is the only child in her class at school to have ever seen the sun, or more accurately, to remember seeing the sun. On this particular day the children are learning about the sun and that today is the day the scientists have predicted will be a sunny one. Margot, being the only real sun expert, tries to correct their description of the star by detailing it as a penny and looking like fire. Already an outcast, the children
The short story All Summer in a Day, by Ray Bradbury, is a fictional tale with a theme based upon friendship and childhood experiences. The reader delves in to this world and we’re faced quite early on with the harsh realities that not all childhood experiences are good ones, especially not for the main character in this story. In this instance, we follow the hardship of the lead character as she faces bullying from her fellow students and this of course leads the reader to feel sympathetic towards her. The writer, from the first few paragraphs, gives the impression of a lonely child and by including symbolism to reflect her location and her circumstances and irony to maximize this mirroring effect of place and emotion, he creates an instant feeling of sadness for her. Mr Bradbury not only uses language to bring forth this feeling of sympathy for the child but he uses the story setting and characterisation also.
The title of this story sums up the very basic idea of what this tale is about. All Summer in a Day is about a single day in which, for a short time, summer appears and then vanishes once again. Based on the far away planet Venus, it tells of a little girl Margot and her classmates that experience what Venus only experiences once every seven years, summer. Margot is the lead character and originally from planet Earth, she relocated to Venus with her family when she was four years old. Venus couldn’t be any more different to planet Earth, with its constant rain, clouds and storms. Margot misses Earth terribly and is the only child in her class at school to have ever seen the sun, or more accurately, to remember seeing the sun. On this particular day the children are learning about the sun and that today is the day the scientists have predicted will be a sunny one. Margot, being the only real sun expert, tries to correct their description of the star by detailing it as a penny and looking like fire. Already an outcast, the children