Tuesday, March 31, 2015

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. 


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