Comparing Story And Ed Kaplan's All Summer In A Day

Have you ever felt like you are were alone, and nobody is listening to what you have to say? These are the feelings Margot was expressing. She was in a classroom, having a happy day about to see the sun, and then she was turned on, trapped in a closet. The short story and movie, “All Summer in a Day,” by Ray Bradbury and Ed Kaplan is a story of a child, living on Venus, named Margot that wishes she would see the sun again. Every seven/nine years it would come out, and Margot wasn't able to experience it, since she was trapped inside the closet. This was because Will was jealous of how she was able to see it when she was very little. Both stories are made off of the same idea, but are drastically different. Yes, there may be some similarities, but you see that there are plenty of differences. This is shown from all of the extra footage Ed Kaplan needed to add in. Such as in the ending, when it doesn't just show Margot leaving the closet like in the short story, but all of the kids feel so bad they gave her the flowers that they grabbed.
Ed Kaplan had chosen to keep the same climax as what Ray Bradbury had made. Margot was still being bullied by being thrown into the closet. As well as this, all of the children that threw Margot into the closet had felt sorry for her. Ed Kaplan had also chose to make it so that Margot still makes her poem, I think the sun is a flower, that blooms for just one hour. He needed to keep it the same so the watchers were able to see her emotions about the sun. There is a main point that both author and director were trying to get through. It is that the children were jealous of what Margot had and what they didn't have: a memory of the