Me, sitting in the corner all alone, watching all the other kids playing games and laughing. I am sad because no one wants to play with you, but it’s partially my fault. Everyone thinks I’m weird because I’m different, and have seen things no one else there has. In the short story, “All Summer in a Day”, the author, Ray Bradbury, shows what it’s like when you isolate yourself from others. Making people think you are a strange person that doesn’t want to talk to anyone isn’t the way to go, and this story shows you why.
The main character in this story, Margot, moves from Earth to Venus with her parents. She goes to school with kids that have lived there all their life, and have never seen the sun before. She doesn’t fit in, and doesn’t try to fit in, so all the little kids ignore her and play amongst them selves. Isolating yourself from others is bad, and no one should ever do that. Margot isolates herself and the kids lock her in the closet, and she suffocates and dies. Not saying that this would happen in real life, but you will get left behind.
This story is an ironic tale. Some symbols that support that are blackness, lightning, no sun, thunder and midnight. Also, the main character is not in control, this story is not realistic, and evil, the little kids, are in control. They are in control because there are many more of them than Margot, and they had the ability to lock her in a closet. There is no hope in this story, because there is no sun, and Margot stays in the closet and dies in the end.
Imagine yourself, sitting in a dark closet, all alone, with no hope of ever getting out. You have missed your chance at the hour of light, and now you aren’t able to breathe. Us, as people, can not give up and spend our whole life alone. We need to take control of our lives and somehow make them better.
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