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In Ray Bradbury’s, “All Summer in a Day,” the first few paragraphs of the first page show the most significance to the rest of the story. Those paragraphs introduce the main character and the setting. Bradbury also uses a lot of imagery in those paragraphs. The passage starts, “It had been raining for seven years,” which vaguely introduces the setting(1). Bradbury the describes the thousand forests that “had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again” (1) this gives the reader an insight to the harsh environments that the characters are living in. Bradbury finally reveals that the characters live on Venus. The minor suspense keeps the reader hooked and makes them want to read on. In the next paragraph,

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