All Summer In One Day Quotes

Imagine life on earth with no sun, no warmth, no light, only rain. In the short story "All Summer In One Day" by Ray Bradbury, there is no sun where the main character Margot lives. It takes place on Venus, a young girl named Margot, who once lived on earth faces the hardships of life with nothing but a slight memory of the sun. For the past five years of her life she was told she was a liar until now. Therefore, Margot is unhappy on Venus, because she has nothing to be happy about. She doesn't have the once beautiful and upbeat climate, she doesn't have someone to be there for her when she is having a bad day, and she doesn't have the sun. The sun hardly ever comes out, it only rains. 2,555 continuous days of rain. For example, in the short story, they use the quote, "She was a very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years and the rain had washed out the blue from her eyes, and the red from her mouth, and the yellow from her hair." (1-2) This shows that on Venus, where Margot lives, the rain washes away everything good about the …show more content…
They are mean to her because she has seen the sun more than they have, and she remembers the sun. This makes them jealous and upset, which makes them act in the manner that they do. They consider her different, because of what she knows. She knows that the sun shines like a penny, and burns like a fire in the stove. An example of how they treat her is portrayed when, "'All a joke!' said the boy, and seized her roughly. 'Hey everyone, let's put her in a closet before the teacher comes!'" (3) this quote is from when the children decided that Margot was a liar, and that the sun was not going to come out, so they locked her in the closet, not knowing that the sun actually was going to come out, and they were the reason that Margot missed it. Margot not only doesn't have the sun, she also doesn't have anyone to lean