In All Summer In a Day, by Ray Bradbury, uses symbolism and similes to illustrate what the sun is in the children's eyes. Symbolism showed the sun as a happy place for the children. First off, when the sun comes out the kids happiness lighten up. Although on the other hand others say the descriptive language was a significant part of all summer in a day. The descriptive language showed what it was really like for the children. Another claim shows That similes made the story also because it showed…
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All Summer In A Day, By Ray Bradbury, uses many similes and metaphors for how much they miss their home. Ray uses a bunch with the main character because she saw the sun when she was 4 and some of them were born on the planet Venus and they have seen it when they were like 1 and they are jealous and don't remember it. And so they lock her in a closet because they are really jealous. And they thank when they lock someone up from seeing something that they never have given the kids the right to do…
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Ray Bradbury’s story “All Summer in a Day”. This story, “ All Summer in a Day” is about a young girl named Margot. During Margot’s early childhood, she lived on Earth, although when she was four years old, her family moved to Venus. Margot had seen the sun every day, vibrant and attractive, relinquishing it’s boiling hot gasses down onto the Earth. Once Margot moved to Venus, the sun had vanished. All that was outside the hazy windows was rainfall. It poured for days upon days. Margot soon was informed…
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All summer in a day is a book about a girl named Margot. Margot used to live on the earth and would see the sun every day. This story takes place on Venus and on Venus it always rains and the sun comes out for only an hour but only when the scientists say. Then when Margot said that the sun would come out no one believed her. Then Margot was being bullied and she was shoved into a locker. Once the sun came out Margot was still in the locker. Then all of the kids went outside without Margot. When…
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The short story All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury teaches the reader that jealousy can scramble people’s thoughts and actions. This theme is repetitively being supported by the text by when the kids are harassing Margot purely out of jealousy. The theme: jealousy can scramble people’s thoughts and actions, is being backed up many times but one of the supporting times is when Margot is in school. For a project, the students have to come up with a poem about the sun. As Margot recites her poem which…
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“All Summer in a Day” written by Ray Bradbury is a science fiction short story. Margot is the protagonist. She is from Earth, living on Venus in a world of sameness. Margot and her classmates are excited to see the sun. All of Margot’s classmates comprehend that Margot is different and lock her in a closet and go enjoy the sun while she is stuck there. Margot is happy when she is learning or talking about the sun. But, all of her classmates just act like it is any other topic in school. “All Summer…
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In the short story, “All Summer In a Day”, by Ray Bradbury, the main character is a nine-year old girl, named Margot. Margot and her classmates live on the planet Venus, where the sun only comes out for an hour every seven years. In the story, Margot is looked upon differently by her classmates; they feel that she cannot be trusted because she is more reserved than themselves. As a result of this, the other children bully her. They even go as far as to lock her up in a closet during the only time…
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“All Summer in a Day” answers to the questions 1. The protagonist in “All Summer in a Day” is Margot because she has a goal to see the sun. The antagonist is the children because the children locked her in a closet. 2. 3. I think that the kind of conflict is man vs. man because the children bully Margot and locked her in a closet. 4. One of the quotes in “All Summer in a Day” was “Is peering out for a look at the hidden sun” because it gives a little description of the outside world. A second quote…
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severely treated differently when only doing the simple task of going outside for an evening walk. The stories “The Pedestrian” and “All Summer In a Day” are about a little girl and man who are discriminated for being different. However both stories share a theme that often bewilders people. The theme both of the stories are likewise, they are both correspondingly all about discrimination. Some people might say the story is about individuality. Then there may be many other who say it is about acceptance…
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the sun, they would shout that she was being dishonest, and would continue harassing her. Jealousy, caused by the lack of education and experience and surplus of envy and hatred on the children’s part, expressed by harassment, was shown in “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury. The children on Venus dislike Magot because of she claims to have seen the sun, which they have barely seen, living underground on a raining planet; they plainly refuse to believe her, and instead assume that she had lied of…
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