Symbolism In Ray Bradbury's 'All Summer In A Day'

“The Sun is alone too but it still shines” by an anonymous author. This quote shows us that just because you are alone doesn't mean you can stop being yourself. In “All Summer In A Day”, by Ray Bradbury, the main character Margot discovers how hard it is to fit in. As Margot tries to fit in and explain the sun to her new classmates, she finds herself alone because none of the kids believe her stories about the sun. Some students then find out that she may be returning to Earth, away from the raining every day. All of the students were jealous of her. In the world today many people have the same struggle as Margot, not fitting in. Margot’s experiences with the rain, the closet, and the sun demonstrate how a group can accomplish more than when an an individual works alone. The first symbol used by Ray Bradbury was the rain, which symbolises Margot's depression. The author uses the rain to show effects of Margot's emotions during the story. The rain represents Margot’s depression through her experience on Venus. Margot stood out from the other kids because she had just moved there from earth, all the other kids have lived on Venus all their lives. When …show more content…
Throughout “All Summer In A Day”, Margot stands alone and all of the other children came together over jealousy of Margot. It was rumored that she may be going back to Earth so the other children who had to stay didn’t think that it was fair that she got to leave Venus and they didn’t. The children also assumed that she had been lying about the sun. It was easy for one student to convince all of the others that she was lying because she was knew and not many people knew who she was so it was easy to make people, that did not know her, turn against her. This goes to show that jealousy is a very powerful things and it can sometimes be an extremely dangerous