In “All Summer In A Day”, the characters are trapped below the planet's surface by the dark rainy skies, and the rain pours down, never ending, at the force of a baseball. the rain is a symbol of confinement, the problem we all face. The author, Ray Bradbury, uses the rain to symbolize the characters confinement.
In the very beginning of the story, only the 5th paragraph, the rain is described deeply and heavily focused on and the rain is viewed as something that is powerful and “A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed once more.” This rain clearly confines everything, it keeps the children inside and keeps the forests from growing. It stops the many different organisms on the planet from growing and developing, it crushes the planet in a blanket of water and this confinement is one of the worst kinds, but it’s not the end of the …show more content…
Everyone stopped. The girl, standing out in the open, held out her hand… They came slowly to look at her opened palm. In the center of it, cupped and huge was a single raindrop. She began to cry; looking at it. They glanced quietly at the sky.” The children are crying because they clearly know that the rain, and their confinement, is coming back, and we all face this, we all get unbound for a moment and temporarily escape but we notice that we can never quite free ourselves completely.
This is what the author, Ray Bradbury, of “All Summer In A Day” was aiming for when he included the thundering rain. He was trying to make the children confined in the watery prison of the rain. He attempted to show that we all are confined in our own little prisons of powerful thundering rain and we can all come out for a little bit every once in awhile. Now the author also leaves us wondering if there is a way the children can escape their confinement, or if the rain will always boom around them and keep them in a watery
In the very beginning of the story, only the 5th paragraph, the rain is described deeply and heavily focused on and the rain is viewed as something that is powerful and “A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed once more.” This rain clearly confines everything, it keeps the children inside and keeps the forests from growing. It stops the many different organisms on the planet from growing and developing, it crushes the planet in a blanket of water and this confinement is one of the worst kinds, but it’s not the end of the …show more content…
Everyone stopped. The girl, standing out in the open, held out her hand… They came slowly to look at her opened palm. In the center of it, cupped and huge was a single raindrop. She began to cry; looking at it. They glanced quietly at the sky.” The children are crying because they clearly know that the rain, and their confinement, is coming back, and we all face this, we all get unbound for a moment and temporarily escape but we notice that we can never quite free ourselves completely.
This is what the author, Ray Bradbury, of “All Summer In A Day” was aiming for when he included the thundering rain. He was trying to make the children confined in the watery prison of the rain. He attempted to show that we all are confined in our own little prisons of powerful thundering rain and we can all come out for a little bit every once in awhile. Now the author also leaves us wondering if there is a way the children can escape their confinement, or if the rain will always boom around them and keep them in a watery