All Summer in a Day

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In the short story “ All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, it talks about the fantastic world in Venus, which the sun appears one hour every seven years while it rains every day. The story uses a unique perspective of children and variety of vivid metaphor to portray the life in Venus. The story occurs in a girl Margot, a nine years old girl, who comes to Venus five years ago and has the memory of sun, and the children living in Venus. Therefore, the point I concerned is the significant role that the sun plays in the short story. It can be expressed in two aspects, which are the behavior of children when they treat Margot, and their performance when they see the sun. In the first half of this short story, there are many details embody the rude behavior of children when they treat Margot. All people in Venus are trapped in this moist world that they become abnormal and hopeless, such as they always cry and refuse everything Margot said. In the sixth paragraph, it writes that after Margot read her poem “I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour”, then one boy protested as “Aw, you didn’t write that”, which shows the impoliteness of children. Another sentence writes, when Margo describes the sun as a penny, the children refuse her and say, “You’re lying, you don’t remember!” (paragraph 12)with crying, which shows their rude behavior. The climax of the story is described as “ ‘But this is the day, the scientists predict, they say, they know, the sun...’ ‘All a joke!’ said the boy, and seized her roughly. ‘Hey, everyone, let’s put her in a closet before the teacher comes’”. This sentence states the children definitely mistrust Margot that even use violence to treat her. In my opinion, the reason for their sequence of actions is that they need the sun; they hope to see the sun but they never, during their life (the sun appears when they are two years old,
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