Dont stop others from getting their Happiness

As in most of Ray Bradbury's short stories, he writes about technology, how bad it is for humans and the damages they cause to our daily life and to our future. "All Summer in a Day" is different, a little girl named Margot went to live with her parents on Venus after leaving everything behind on Ohio and most important of all, the chance of seeing the sun everyday. In Venus it only rained, and every seven years, the sun came out for an hour. This was the day that Margot would finally get to see the sun after leaving Earth. As the hours passed by, the children in Margot's class started loosing hope, the sun will not come out, but Margot didn't want to loose that hope. Margot started talking about the sun's beauty and how she remembered it back in Ohio. Her classmates decided to play a joke on her by locking her in the closet. The rain stopped and the sun came out, the kids forgot about Margot, went outside to play in the sun and when it started to rain again, they went back in. They unlocked Margot and she did not see the sun.
 

Margot, the story's protagonist, wasn't and ordinary girl, and through the story we can realize that she wasn't as joyful as the other kids were

 

" She was a very frail girls who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years and the rain washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair" (2).

 

Even though Margot was from another planet and clearly see that she hasn't made any friends, this quote reveals that Margot feels alone, she is sad and she needs happiness in her life. That happiness is being able to watch the sun, something she never got to, but the other kids did...

"It was the color of flaming bronze and it was very large. And the sky around it was a blazing blue tile color" (3).

 

This is how Ray Bradbury's strong use of imagery describes the sun, the words that he uses like flaming bronze makes us imagine a large flaming sun that

if you touch it you will burn and that's what the kids felt as they saw the sun coming out and as we read it we can really feel its heat.

 

This is an amazing story, and one of my favorites, because it has more to it than just about a little girl who lost her chance of seeing the sun. The message is so pure and simple, to achieve happiness not only through material things, just a little smile from somebody might do it, or even getting to see the sun like Margot wanted to. The strong use of imagery and characterization that Ray Bradbury uses, makes us realize that little things can bring us big happiness and that if something stops us from doing that, it will leave a black hole on our hearts. The use of imagery and characterization on these short story not only helps to view the story in another way, it makes it appealing to the senses that we use on our daily life.

 

if you take someone's happiness, they can take yours too