Realistic/Fantastic Elements In Ray Bradbury's All Summer In A Day
In the story “All Summer in a Day,” the author, Ray Bradbury, uses techniques such as realistic/fantastic elements, and POVs to make a claim that it’s human nature to be jealous, which can cause people to bully/harm others.
Ray Bradbury uses realistic elements such as the setting in the flashback as Earth, and it was the same life that people live currently, the weather was also the same weather people experience right now, and this is on Earth. However, Bradbury also uses fantastical elements such as the setting on Venus, and the weather isn’t the same as Earth, because it rains non-stop. This element shows why the kids are jealous of Margot, because they don’t remember Earth. In the story, the narrator lists reasons why no one liked Margot …show more content…
The kids have been in Venus almost their entire lives, and Margot can’t adapt because she’s new to Venus. Margot was different because she knew what the sun felt and looked like, “it’s like a penny...it’s like a fire (P.3).” Margot’s point of view of the sun is obviously different than the other kids. POV in the story shows how humanity doesn’t believe in something they never saw or heard of, and some have a different way of dealing with that. Another example of how POV criticizes society is that the kids tell Margot that the sun coming out after seven years was all a joke, and it’s never happening, hence they “put her in a closet before the teacher comes (P.5),” so she wouldn’t see the sun. As a result of not believing Margot’s description of the sun, the kids’ demonstration of disbelief was to take the one thing she wanted to see by bullying her and putting her in a closet, this could also be seen as a realistic element as bullying happens in the modern world. The kids’ POV of the sun, however, is diverse than Margot’s so as a group it was easy for them to not trust her because she’s the only one who remembers the sun. The criticism the element shows goes back to the last support about not believing in something people never saw, so when they realize that other people besides them have experience whatever they haven’t, they tend to act
Ray Bradbury uses realistic elements such as the setting in the flashback as Earth, and it was the same life that people live currently, the weather was also the same weather people experience right now, and this is on Earth. However, Bradbury also uses fantastical elements such as the setting on Venus, and the weather isn’t the same as Earth, because it rains non-stop. This element shows why the kids are jealous of Margot, because they don’t remember Earth. In the story, the narrator lists reasons why no one liked Margot …show more content…
The kids have been in Venus almost their entire lives, and Margot can’t adapt because she’s new to Venus. Margot was different because she knew what the sun felt and looked like, “it’s like a penny...it’s like a fire (P.3).” Margot’s point of view of the sun is obviously different than the other kids. POV in the story shows how humanity doesn’t believe in something they never saw or heard of, and some have a different way of dealing with that. Another example of how POV criticizes society is that the kids tell Margot that the sun coming out after seven years was all a joke, and it’s never happening, hence they “put her in a closet before the teacher comes (P.5),” so she wouldn’t see the sun. As a result of not believing Margot’s description of the sun, the kids’ demonstration of disbelief was to take the one thing she wanted to see by bullying her and putting her in a closet, this could also be seen as a realistic element as bullying happens in the modern world. The kids’ POV of the sun, however, is diverse than Margot’s so as a group it was easy for them to not trust her because she’s the only one who remembers the sun. The criticism the element shows goes back to the last support about not believing in something people never saw, so when they realize that other people besides them have experience whatever they haven’t, they tend to act