Symbolism In Ray Bradbury's All Summer In A Day

Venus is a planet that no one on Earth can reach. Ray Bradbury the author of All Summer In A Day uses author's craft to enable readers to live life on Venus; the sunless planet. Crafts like symbolism and descriptive language create deep rooted meanings in the short story. Sure, simile and metaphor can help you picture the image as well but not as good as the Crafts mentioned above. The most significant craft in the story would be symbolism because it allows readers to relate to the story by finding a deeper meaning in the text. For example, the sun in the story …show more content…
Toward the middle of the story, Ray Bradbury wrote, “turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all tumbling spokes,” this creates a picture in readers minds, the kids practically running over each other to be the first outside. A similar example of this was when the children were enjoying the forest floor and the author used the words “jungle mattress,” this could make readers relate to their beds in their own homes. A place Venus isn't. Meanwhile, some may argue that the most effective craft used in the story is metaphor. The way Ray uses lemons and yellow crayons to describe the sun does create a mental picture, but better reinforces the theme that the sun is happiness on Venus, than transporting you into the story. In the text it also says, “endless shaking down of clear bead necklaces upon roof, walk, gardens, and forests.” This evidence supports the theme that the sun is happiness and the rain is keeping citizens from it; although, it does create a clear image, the quote better supports the