All Summer in a Day
By: Ray Bradbury
All summer in a Day Critique
We often let jealousy take over our emotions, this makes us take precipitated decisions that we might regret later. Ray Bradbury shows us what emotions like this, mixed with happiness and excitement can end up regretting the choices you made I her science fiction short story All Summer in a day. The main conflict in this story that takes place in a classroom in Venus, a planet where kids haven’t seen the sun in the last seven years, is centered in a girl called Margot, who comes from Earth and still remembers the sun. The other kids feel jealousy toward Margot, and the day the sun comes out they all trap Margot in a closet taking away her opportunity to see the sun again.
Some science fiction elements that we might find in the story is that the characters live in the future and they leave Earth to live in Venus, a planet where there is always rain. This makes us question why the characters leave planet Earth, what might have happened to it and if it will ever happen to us if we continue harming our planet. We also think about if someday the human race will disperse to different planets for whatever reason. Clear examples of this elements are shown in the story, one of them is; “And this was the way life was forever in planet Venus, and this was the schoolroom of the children of the rocket men and women who had come to a raining world to set up a civilization and live their lives.”
Bradbury uses detailed description and dialogue between the characters to really get his readers in the story. The way the author describes the kid’s first encounter with the sun makes us readers feel the kids happiness, and it´s like it is also our first encounter with it, even though we see it every day. The dialogue of the kids when they are discussing the appearance of the sun in the planet causes the reader uncertainty and excitement because we don’t know if the sun is really going to come out, we can also see through the dialogues that the kids realize that by putting Margot in the closet, she missed what could have been the happiest day of her life and her chance to see the sun and how the kids regretted their choices.
The setting where Bradbury places his story All summer in a day, is a glimpse of what might happen in the real future, and the repercussions that not taking good care of our planet might have. With his precise descriptions and dialogues he really gets to get us in the story and understand the conflict, making us rethink on the things that we might have done in the past to harm others, and how our choices could have a negative impact on someone’s life.
By: Ray Bradbury
All summer in a Day Critique
We often let jealousy take over our emotions, this makes us take precipitated decisions that we might regret later. Ray Bradbury shows us what emotions like this, mixed with happiness and excitement can end up regretting the choices you made I her science fiction short story All Summer in a day. The main conflict in this story that takes place in a classroom in Venus, a planet where kids haven’t seen the sun in the last seven years, is centered in a girl called Margot, who comes from Earth and still remembers the sun. The other kids feel jealousy toward Margot, and the day the sun comes out they all trap Margot in a closet taking away her opportunity to see the sun again.
Some science fiction elements that we might find in the story is that the characters live in the future and they leave Earth to live in Venus, a planet where there is always rain. This makes us question why the characters leave planet Earth, what might have happened to it and if it will ever happen to us if we continue harming our planet. We also think about if someday the human race will disperse to different planets for whatever reason. Clear examples of this elements are shown in the story, one of them is; “And this was the way life was forever in planet Venus, and this was the schoolroom of the children of the rocket men and women who had come to a raining world to set up a civilization and live their lives.”
Bradbury uses detailed description and dialogue between the characters to really get his readers in the story. The way the author describes the kid’s first encounter with the sun makes us readers feel the kids happiness, and it´s like it is also our first encounter with it, even though we see it every day. The dialogue of the kids when they are discussing the appearance of the sun in the planet causes the reader uncertainty and excitement because we don’t know if the sun is really going to come out, we can also see through the dialogues that the kids realize that by putting Margot in the closet, she missed what could have been the happiest day of her life and her chance to see the sun and how the kids regretted their choices.
The setting where Bradbury places his story All summer in a day, is a glimpse of what might happen in the real future, and the repercussions that not taking good care of our planet might have. With his precise descriptions and dialogues he really gets to get us in the story and understand the conflict, making us rethink on the things that we might have done in the past to harm others, and how our choices could have a negative impact on someone’s life.