All Summer In A Day Summary

Madyson McGowan In the story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, the author tells a story about a nine-year-old girl named Margot, living in an underground city on Venus. Margot had once lived on Earth until she was four, but her family left Earth for a new life on Venus. Her whole life had been changed by this single action. On Venus, it rains all day long and there is never any sun to be seen, whereas, on Earth, the sun was almost always visible. This change causes Margot to only want to see the sun even more. Her classmates had lived on Venus their whole lives, and the sun only comes out every seven years. This year, though, was the year the sun was going to come out. One theme that this text suggests is that people --out of jealousy-- …show more content…
they had been only two years old when the sun last came out and had long since forgotten the color and the heat of it and the way it really was. But Margot remembered.” The sun is a universal sign of happiness, but without the sun, there is no happiness. It is like a huge dark cloud is over Margot’s head everyday. This time is like the Great Depression, where everyone was sad and grieving, just like Margot was. Although the Great Depression was based off of economic failures and this is about a conflict between grade school children, the effect on the people going through this is still the same. Plus, they call her coming from Earth a “crime”. By Ray Bradbury saying this, we can see how serious these kids take this point and how different Margot is from the rest. They always told her she was wrong about the sun, when they had never seen it. Therefore, we can see they are jealous of her actions and of her past. Another example I found that shows the children's jealousy is when the author wrote, “They