Everyone in life can be faced with a struggle that they may or may not overcome in the end. Miley Cyrus and Ray Bradbury both understand this universal concept, for they show it in their texts, “The Climb” and “All Summer in a Day”. In “The Climb” Miley Cyrus sings this beautiful song about her struggle of overcoming a metaphorical mountain. In “All Summer in a Day”, kids live on Venus with their family, where the weather is in a constant state of rain. In both “The Climb” and “All Summer in a Day” the texts can be similar to one another because of their use of different symbols to help convey a similar but slightly different theme. First, “All Summer in a Day” uses the symbol, the sun, to help explain the theme: Knowledge can lead one
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Miley Cyrus, the songwriter, starts off the song by explaining her dilemma right away. “I can almost see it/That dream I'm dreaming but/There's a voice inside my head saying/You'll never reach it.” She is experiencing a struggle within herself. The metaphorical mountain that she is “climbing” comes up later in the song to represent her feelings of self doubt. Therefore if she conquers the mountain, she has conquered her issues. Cyrus finally shows how she resolved her conflict when she sings, “And I gotta be strong/Just keep pushing on/'cause There's always gonna be another mountain/I'm always gonna wanna make it move/Always gonna be an uphill battle/ Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose.” When Cyrus talked about more mountains, she was talking about the many issues everyone's faces and how they are going to overcome it like her. In the end, she was able to help convey her struggles to her audience throughout the whole song by using a mountain. If the mountain was not there, the audience may have been confused with what she was trying to …show more content…
Ray Bradbury and Miley Cyrus show their own, and other’s struggles through the story “All Summer in a Day” and in the song “The Climb”. Both pieces use symbols to help convey their theme. On the other hand, they have some difference from one another because “The Climb” is a man vs. self conflict and “All Summer in a Day” is about a little girl vs. her classmates. No matter what the circumstance, these two alike pieces both show the story of someone going through a tough time, even if the story doesn’t show the issue being solved because sometimes it doesn’t get dealt with until another
Miley Cyrus, the songwriter, starts off the song by explaining her dilemma right away. “I can almost see it/That dream I'm dreaming but/There's a voice inside my head saying/You'll never reach it.” She is experiencing a struggle within herself. The metaphorical mountain that she is “climbing” comes up later in the song to represent her feelings of self doubt. Therefore if she conquers the mountain, she has conquered her issues. Cyrus finally shows how she resolved her conflict when she sings, “And I gotta be strong/Just keep pushing on/'cause There's always gonna be another mountain/I'm always gonna wanna make it move/Always gonna be an uphill battle/ Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose.” When Cyrus talked about more mountains, she was talking about the many issues everyone's faces and how they are going to overcome it like her. In the end, she was able to help convey her struggles to her audience throughout the whole song by using a mountain. If the mountain was not there, the audience may have been confused with what she was trying to …show more content…
Ray Bradbury and Miley Cyrus show their own, and other’s struggles through the story “All Summer in a Day” and in the song “The Climb”. Both pieces use symbols to help convey their theme. On the other hand, they have some difference from one another because “The Climb” is a man vs. self conflict and “All Summer in a Day” is about a little girl vs. her classmates. No matter what the circumstance, these two alike pieces both show the story of someone going through a tough time, even if the story doesn’t show the issue being solved because sometimes it doesn’t get dealt with until another