The Little Things in Life May be the Big Ones

"All Summer in One Day" is a Ray Badbury's short story really interesting that teach us a lot of values. This story is abut Venus, where it has been raining for seven years. Margot is a girl who lived in Ohio and really misses the sun, the scientist had announced that the sun will come out one day just for one hour. William and the other kids in her school had never seen the sun so they always bother Margot for believing in the sun and its beauty, she was different. The day the sun was finally going to come out, the kids locked Margot in a closet and forgot about her when the sun came out. 

Ray Bradbury uses very good imagery in his stories. This quote is one of my favorites because describes perfectly how the sun is. 

"It was the color of flaming bronze and it was very large. And the sky around it was a blazing blue tile color. And the jungle burned with sunlight as the children, released from their spell, rushed out, yelling into the springtime."

Ray Bradbury describes the sun as it really is and it creates a picture in our mind by describing the color of the things. He says, "the color flaming bronze and it was a blazing blue tie color" he describes how the sun sees and how the sky is, that creates the picture in our mind about the sun. 

This author not only uses imagery to make better his stories, he also uses characterization as this example below: 

"She was a very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years and the rain had washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair. She was an old photograph dusted from an album, whitened away, and if she spoke at all her voice would be a ghost." 

This quote shows how Margot has lost her vitality by not seeing the sun. The quote shows us how much she misses the sun and tell us a lot of her. For example, that she is a girl who cares a lot about the things that she likes and that changes for her, are really hard. 

To conclude, I think that Ray Bradbury is a very good author that explains perfectly what he wants to communicate. This story taught me to value the little things in life because some day they might become the big ones. 

The Fair One

Jonas is starting questioning himself about this society. He knows they are unfair with everyone but he wants to make a change. After noticing that his friends didn't knew the real significance of war, he knew no one except The Giver would understand him, that's why he needed to make a change. The Giver showed Jonas what means being released and it means death. He watched his father killing a baby! The Giver told him about her daughter, Rosemary, who was the Receiver of memories and "failed", she couldn't handle anymore the memories of pain. Jonas has created a plan with The Giver, Jonas was going to scape to elsewhere which they are shire it's real.    

Jonas wants to recover all what his society has lost because of the committee, he wants everyone to recover memories. I think it's not fair for everyone to be the same just because a little group of people decide it. "It's true that it has been this way for what it seems forever. But the memories tell us they it has not always been. People felt things once. You and I have been part of that, so we know." I think Jonas wants to be fair with everyone. Its not fair that some people are obsessed with sameness and because of that they changed everything. People are not able to make their own decisions, know they even kill people thinking that that is normal. It wasn't like this before and Jonas is the only one who took the risk to change this, I think he is a hero. 

Jonas is going to change everything. He is the only one who is brave enough to take a risk. Jonas is a hero. Life is all about taking decisions and risks, people can't do that because they don't have memories. The committee has taking away their lives because they can't do that, they need memories and feelings. Memories are made to share them.

Freedom

Jonas is now starting to realize how bad and controlled his society is. The Giver is sharing many memories to Jonas, which he is starting to analyze and getting wiser of them. He knows what the committee is doing and he thinks that's bad, he wants to change it. They are controlling the teachings each person learns even is school, they give pills for not filing love and they, they are taking away family and they are hiding the memories people should remember. He wants to share his memories with anyone but he finds out that the only one who receives his memories is Gabriel, the baby. Jonas is afraid that someone finds out he is giving memories to Gabriel but that's the only person he can share his thoughts and feelings.

Jonas has the capacity to change things and he is intelligent enough to see how controlling the committee is with them. "The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away." Maybe the thing that has grown inside of him trough memories is wisdom. The knowledge he has adquire was telling him that taking the pills was bad for him. Jonas doesn't want to be controlled any more, he is the one who is setting the good example. Finally, someone is going to change. A simple thing as a pill may be the start of change.

Dystopia is the idea, someone generates, of a perfect world which is not. Jonas' world is controlled by the Committee of Elders, which are going to do anything therefore their world and their rules are not changed. The first person to realize that the Committee of Elders is wrong is Jonas. Finally, he is going to do something to change the world.

Do you think Jonas can
change his world like one of these
guys who had changed our world?