All Summer in a Day

Children grow up not knowing how the world works. They don’t understand why people are different from each other, and sometimes they react to differences with jealousy or cruelty. In All Summer in a Day, by Ray Bradbury, the children are jealous and even angry with Margot because she has had experiences that they have not, and she suffers unfairly as a result.

You could write a literary analysis about the Figurative Language in this story:

The children pressed together LIKE so many roses, so many weeds intermixed. Simile

They were remembering gold or a yellow crayon or a coin large enough to build the world with. Metaphor

They always awoke to the tatting drum, the endless snaking of clear bead necklaces upon the roof. Metaphor

They turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all fumbling spokes. Simile

She was an old photograph dusted from an album, whitened away and if she spoke at all her voice would be a ghosts. Metaphor

It’s like a penny. Simile

The great jungle that covered Venus, that grew and never stopped growing, tumultuously, even as you watched it. It was a nest of octopi, clustering up great arms of fleshlike week, wavering, flowering in this brief spring. Metaphor

You could write an essay about what Ray Bradbury is saying about mob mentality in "All Summer and a Day".

"All Summer in a Day" shows Margot, the quiet, invisible outcast of the class, being singled out by the rest of her classmates, after telling everyone the sun would come out. The sun never comes out on Venus, making this an extraordinary deal. The deal was too much for the class, and the students display a term called "mob mentality." Mob mentality is, unfortunately, very common within society. Human beings don't like dramatic changes in their environment, especially when it is out of the ordinary. When someone comes along and