Until Next Time, My Sunny Friend

          In Ray Bradbury short story "All Summer in a Day" a group of kids that are nine years old wait for the sun to come out, as the scientists predicted. This take place in a colony made in Venus, were all day long it rains, except every seven years when for two hours the sun comes out. From this group of children only one had seen the sun in an age where she can remember, Margot, the only Earth born kid, or girl, she came to Venus when she was four years old, and everyone hates her because of her birth place and for seeing the sun. When the teacher leaves the room briefly, the other kids trap Margot in a closet, so she don´t see the sun and they go for two hours outside, have fun, and when the rains began again, they, humbled because of the sun, release Margot.

     I love how Ray Bradbury use the senses of sight and hearing to enchant his writing, making you see through his letter, make you feel like you are really in the book. There are many examples, however this one is my favorite:

"The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds, intermixed, peering out for a look at the hidden sun. It rained. It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with

 rain, with the drum and gash of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands."           (Bradbury 1)

     When I read this, I feel as I am one of the kids, trying to see the unseen sun. Tired of a life under the clouds, under the rain that falls day after day, week after week, and year after year. I see, the water droplets going down a crystal of a window, and I hear the never ending drumming of the splash of the rain in the surface, never ending, never ever ending.

      However the people, mainly kids, which live in Venus match the mood of their weather. But Margot is more secluded, but it is not her fault, the other ignore her:

Margot

"Margot stood alone, 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 clue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair.......... Now she stood, separated, staring at the rain and the loud wet world beyond the huge glass."                                                                    (Bradbury 2)

     This shows how Margot is frail, not only by seeming colorless, but she stands apart, she secludes herself and the other seclude her. She seems always sad by how she stands alone, and her appearance also gives her that melancholic aura.

       This story is not only about entertainment, but also it gives us a message. This message is that we should not seclude people and at the same time appreciate every precious moment we have. Also the theme is that people must appreciate every moment they have.