Ray Bradbury's All Summer In A Day

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Ray Bradbury's story “All Summer in a day”, is about people who lives on the planet venus and it rains all of the time. Margot lived on earth but just recently arrived on mars. She remembers there being sun when she lived on earth and now she is not used to it always raining with no sunshine. She starts to miss the sunshine and how warm it was earth. The other children on Venus are jealous and get mad that she remembers and even got to see the sun. A lesson in this story is sometime when people can get over their own pain, they can end up hurting others. Ray Bradbury emphasised description, metaphor, and symbolism to make the story be more interesting and use other thing to compare and symbolise.
One way Ray Bradbury uses author's craft is

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