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    In All Summer in a Day‚ Ray Bradbury uses similes and metaphors to bring life to his story. Similes are used by Bradbury throughout his story. He uses similes to help the reader paint a picture in their mind. Some others believe that it is actually personification to give life to his story and not similes and metaphors. Personification helps bring the reader to the children’s perspective. Ray Bradbury uses metaphors to bring his story to life. Ray Bradbury features many similes and metaphors to

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    same motif as “All summer in a day‚” by ray bradbury. All summer in a day is about how people colonized Venus. It rains only every seven years. When it stops raining school children locked their classmate into a closet so she couldn’t see the sun. The painting is also about a main character with words on her body‚ exclaiming‚ “loser‚ ugly‚ and stupid.” Both pieces show people to stop bullying. That’s why the two artworks are the same. The theme of “All Summer in a Day‚” by Ray Bradbury‚ is

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    Mary

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    Eve‚ Mary-mother of Jesus‚ and Mary Magdalene are all prominent characters in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and to some extent are mentioned in the Quran. Regardless of whether or not a person believes these women really existed as portrayed within these religious texts‚ they had and still have a major impact on societal views towards women today. For women to be truly liberated and treated as equals to men requires the circumvention of conventional patriarchal‚ anti-feminist interpretations and

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    an American reality television producer‚ once said "I think there is a danger there of being mean to people and humiliating people and embarrassing people just because it might get you ratings. It is a disturbing trend." In the short story All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury‚ the students treat Margot - the main character who comes from Earth - cruelly because they were jealous of her and wanted attention. Since she was from Earth‚ she experienced feeling and seeing the sun more recently. The theme

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    Oliver Twist 12/17/01 Oliver Twist‚ a poor‚ innocent orphan boy‚ stands out in this story as the main character‚ but it is the supporting characters that allow this novel to develop a much more satisfying and believable theme. With "Good V.S. Evil" as one of the major conflicts‚ in such categories are the secondary characters found as well. Three supporting characters of Oliver Twist aid the elaboration of the story; these significant characters are Mr. Brownlow representing purity‚ integrity

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    brings color to the world. In the story all summer in the day‚ By Ray Bradbury. This is a story about science fiction in the plant Venus. The story setting is in a classroom. One of the girls is named Margot‚ she came from the earth. Margot still remembers how the sun was because she came to Venus at an older age. But she was different that her classmates because they have never seen the sun. that is how Margot and the classmates have issues. All summer in a day is about being different because it shows

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    those who you used to see every day. In the story “The All American Slurp” by Lensey Namioka and “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury both stories share the theme of acceptance. The stories show the hard parts of being in a new place and the parts that make you feel better. Both authors chose to make girls be in a new place and try to adjust to their situations that they are put into. This show that Margot in “All Summer in a Day” is used to see the sun every day in Ohio and now is trying to fit

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    Have you ever heard stories on the internet or the news of people getting shot or being hurt by bullying? In the story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury and in “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut‚ Jr. people are getting hurt two different ways‚ but in the act of jealousy. In “All Summer in a Day”‚ a girl name Margot (on Venus) knows more about the sun than the other children‚ yet‚ instead of the other children wanting to know more and hearing her out‚ they put her in a closet. And in “Harrison

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    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

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    one knew became important. Mubarek was the new president of Egypt. Bush had no problem contacting him who helped to get the Arab league to put sanctions on Iraq. As shown‚ it is important to know everyone‚ because they might be important to you one day. Politicians who make the effort to know

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