Symbolism And Metaphor In All Summer In A Day
In “All Summer In A Day” Ray Bradbury uses symbolism and metaphor to bring his story to life.
In the story Ray Bradbury uses the sun to symbolize the children’s need for freedom.The children live on Venus and only see the sun once every 7 years and have rain every day until then.But of all the children Margot hasn’t lived on Venus her whole life and on Earth she’s seen the sun more than the other children and that made the other children jealous of her.An example of that jealousy’s in the story when Margot reads to the class her poem about the sun she wrote “I think the sun’s a flower that blooms for just one hour” a boy from the class shouted “You didn’t write that!You stole it from someone else’s work!” which then made the other kids join
In the story Ray Bradbury uses the sun to symbolize the children’s need for freedom.The children live on Venus and only see the sun once every 7 years and have rain every day until then.But of all the children Margot hasn’t lived on Venus her whole life and on Earth she’s seen the sun more than the other children and that made the other children jealous of her.An example of that jealousy’s in the story when Margot reads to the class her poem about the sun she wrote “I think the sun’s a flower that blooms for just one hour” a boy from the class shouted “You didn’t write that!You stole it from someone else’s work!” which then made the other kids join