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Treasure Trove A Collection of ICSE Short Stories Workbook Answers Chapter 10 All Summer in a Day\u00a0– ICSE Class 10, 9 English
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

English<\/a>Maths<\/a>Physics<\/a>Chemistry<\/a>Biology<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

ICSE Solutions<\/a>Selina ICSE Solutions<\/a>ML Aggarwal Solutions<\/a><\/p>\n

Comprehension Passages<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Passage 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cDo the scientists really know? Will it happen today, will it ?\u201d
\n\u201cLook, look; see for yourself !\u201dThe children pressed to each other like so many\u00a0 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 gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands. A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again. And this was the way life was forever on the planet Venus, and this was the schoolroom of the children of the rocket men and women who had come to a raining world to set up civilization and live out their lives.<\/p>\n

Question 1.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhich is the place under discussion?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe place under discussion is the planet Venus and the weather there.<\/p>\n

Question 2.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhat is the weather like on Venus? How long has it been like this?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe weather is dark and depressing as there is no sun for the past seven years. It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain.<\/p>\n

Question 3.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhat is supposed to happen on this particular day?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe scientists had predicted that on that particular day the sun would shine for a short while.<\/p>\n

Question 4.<\/span><\/strong>
\nDescribe the rain and its effect on life on Venus.
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe sun remains hidden for seven years on Venus and it rains continuously for those seven years, thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain, with the drum and gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands. A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again.<\/p>\n

Question 5.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhy had the rocket men and women come to Venus?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe rocket men and women had come to the raining world of Venus to set up a civilization and live out their lives.<\/p>\n

Passage 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Margot stood apart from these children who could never remember a time when there wasn\u2019t rain and rain and rain. They were all nine years old, and if there had been a day, seven years ago, when the sun came out for an hour and showed its face to the stunned world, they could not recall. Sometimes, at night, she heard them stir, in remembrance, and she knew they were dreaming and remembering an old or a yellow crayon or a coin large enough to buy the world with. She knew they thought they remembered a warmness, like a blushing in the face, in the body, in the arms and legs and trembling hands. But then they always awoke to the tatting drum, the endless shaking down of clear bead necklaces upon the roof, the walk, the gardens, the forests, and their dreams were gone. All day yesterday they had read in class about the sun. About how like a lemon it was, and how hot. And they had written small stories or essays or poems about it:<\/p>\n

I think the snn is a flower,
\nThat blooms for just one hour.<\/p>\n

Question 1.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhy are the other children unable to remember the sun?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe other children were unable to remember the sun because in case there had been a day seven years ago when the sun had shone for a short while, they would not be able to recall as they would have been only two years old.<\/p>\n

Question 2.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhat memory disturbed the children at night sometimes?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe vague memory of the sun troubled them and they mistook it for an old yellow crayon or a coin large enough to buy the world with.<\/p>\n

Question 3.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhat were the things the children were familiar with in their world?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe children were familiar with the tatting drum, the endless shaking down of clear bead necklaces upon the roof, the walk, the gardens, and the forests.<\/p>\n

Question 4.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhat did the children read in class all day long?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nAll day they had read in class about the sun. About how it resembled a lemon, and how hot was the sun. The children had also written small stories or essays or poems about the sun.<\/p>\n

Question 5.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhat had Margot written about the sun in her poem?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nShe had written that the sun was like a flower that bloomed only for an hour.<\/p>\n

Passage 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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 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. Now she stood, separate, staring at the rain and the loud wet world beyond the huge glass. \u201cWhat\u2019re you looking at ?\u201d said William. Margot said nothing. \u201cSpeak when you\u2019re spoken to.\u201d He gave her a shove. But she did not move; rather she let herself be moved only by him and nothing else. They edged away from her, they would not look at her. She felt them go away. And this was because she would play no games with them in the echoing tunnels of the underground city. If they tagged her and ran, she stood blinking after them and did not follow. When the class sang songs about happiness and life and games her lips barely moved. Only when they sang about the sun and the summer did her lips move as she watched the drenched windows.<\/p>\n

Question 1.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhat did Margot look like?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nMargot was a thin and delicate 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.<\/p>\n

Question 2.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhy was Margot sad?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nMargot was sad because she did not like the rain and she remembered the warmth and brightness of the sun on Earth where it could be seen every day.<\/p>\n

Question 3.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhat was the reaction of the children towards Margot?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe children found Margot strange and bullied her. They edged away from her, they would not look at her.<\/p>\n

Question 4.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhy did they behave in this manner towards Margot?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe children behaved in this manner towards Margot because she would not play games with them in the echoing tunnels of the underground city. If they tagged her and ran, she stood blinking after them and did not follow. When the class sang songs about happiness and life and games her lips barely moved.<\/p>\n

Question 5.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhen did Margot react ?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nMargot reacted only when they sang about the sun and the summer. Then her lips moved as she watched the drenched windows. Even the mention of the sun made her happy and react in some manner.<\/p>\n

Passage 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So after that, dimly, dimly, she sensed it, she was different and they knew her difference and kept away. There was talk that her father and mother were taking her back to Earth next year; it seemed vital to her that they do so, though it would mean the loss of thousands of dollars to her family. And so, the children hated her for all these reasons of big and little consequence. They hated her pale snow face, her waiting silence, her thinness, and her possible future. \u201cGet away 1\u201d The boy gave her another push. \u201cWhat\u2019re you waiting for?\u201dThen, for the first time, she turned and looked at him. And what she was waiting for was in her eyes. \u201cWell, don\u2019t wait around here !\u201d cried the boy savagely. \u201cYou won\u2019t see nothing!\u201d Her lips moved. \u201cNothing 1\u201d he cried. \u201cIt was all a joke, wasn\u2019t it?\u201d He turned to the other children. \u201cNothing\u2019s happening today. Is it ?\u201d<\/p>\n

Question 1.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhat makes Margot different from the other children? Why?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nMargot had memories of the sun and the glorious effect and warmth of the sun. But the children had no recollections and remembered only the colourless and depressing rain on Venus. This was the main difference.<\/p>\n

Question 2.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhat was the rumour? What did Margot think?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nThere was a rumour that Margot\u2019s parents were taking her back to Earth next year. It seemed important to Margot that they do so because she hated Venus and could not survive without the Sun on Venus. The decision to take Margot back to Earth would mean loss of thousands of dollars to her family.<\/p>\n

Question 3.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhy did the children hate her?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe children sensed that Margot was different from them. She hated the continuous rain while they were used to it. She spoke only about the sun and they had no memory of it. They hated her pale snow face, her waiting silence, her thinness, and her possible future of going back to the Earth.<\/p>\n

Question 4.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhat is the \u2018it\u2019 referred to by William?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe \u2018it\u2019 referred to by William is the Sun which the scientists had predicted would shine for a short while that day.<\/p>\n

Question 5.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhat was Margot waiting for? Why did William say it was a joke?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nMargot was waiting to see the sun predicted to shine that day for a short while. William did not want her to have the joy of seeing the sun .<\/p>\n

Passage 5<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.<\/strong><\/p>\n

They stood in the doorway of the underground for a moment until it was raining hard. Then they closed the door and heard the gigantic sound of the rain falling in tons and\u00a0avalanches, everywhere and forever.<\/p>\n

\u201cWill it be seven more years?\u201d \u201cYes. Seven.\u201d Then one of them gave a little cry. \u201cMargot!\u201d \u201cWhat?\u201d \u201cShe\u2019s still in the closet where we locked her.\u201d \u201cMargot.\u201d<\/p>\n

They stood as if someone had driven them, like so many stakes, into the floor. They looked at each other and then looked away. They glanced out at the world that was raining now and raining and raining steadily. They could not meet each other\u2019s glances. Their faces were solemn and pale. They looked at their hands and feet, their faces down. \u201cMargot.\u201d One of the girls said, \u201cWell.. .?\u201d No one moved. \u201cGo on,\u201d whispered the girl. They walked slowly down the hall in the sound of the cold rain. They turned through the doorway to the room in the sound of the storm and thunder, lightning on their faces, blue and terrible. They walked over to the closet door slowly and stood by it. Behind the closed door was only silence. They unlocked the door, even more slowly, and let Margot out.<\/p>\n

Question 1.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhen would the Sun shine again? Why had the children locked Margot in the closet?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe sun would shine after seven years. The children knew Margot loved the sun and had waited to see it. But they hated her and so did not want her to see the sun and locked her in the closet.<\/p>\n

Question 2.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhy were the children avoiding looking at each other?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe children glanced out at the world that was raining now and raining and raining steadily. They could not meet each other\u2019s glances. Their faces were solemn and pale. They looked at their hands and feet, their faces down because they were guilty of hurting Margot by not letting her see the Sun. Now it would shine on Venus only after seven years. They had been cruel to Margot.<\/p>\n

Question 3.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhy does the author describe their faces as blue and terrible?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe author describes their faces as blue and terrible to accentuate their criminal and mean minds which are the result of living on Venus, away from the positive energy of the Sun.<\/p>\n

Question 4.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhat impression does one get of the life of people away from the Sun ?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe power of the sun over the children living on Venus is notable. They are pale and colourless, not just physically but also emotionally. The lack of the sun has not only washed away the colour on their skin but also their compassion and empathy for other people. They do not gain this until they\u2019ve spent time under the sun\u2019s rays. The sun is life giving for the landscape as well as the inhabitants of Venus.<\/p>\n

Assignment<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Question 1.<\/span><\/strong>
\nHow does Ray Bradbury develop the mood in \u201cAll Summer in a Day\u201d?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nBradbury uses lyrical language to convey a mood of longing and loss in this story of a Venus where the sun only emerges once every seven years. This mood is reinforced by the personality of the main character, Margot, a sensitive, melancholy little girl whose soul\u2019s sadness seems reflected in the ever present rain. The sun in this story becomes the metaphor for all our longings and desires.<\/p>\n

Bradbury doesn\u2019t just say it rained all the time, but describes the rain: \u201cthe sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy … A thousand forests had been crushed.\u201d Likewise, Bradbury lingers over descriptions of the sun. It is like \u201cgold\u201d or a \u201clemon crayon,\u201d \u201cflaming bronze\u201d and a \u201cwarm iron.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bradbury repeatedly uses similes and poetic language to describe this sun and this world. Rather than hurtle us forward from event to event in this stoiy, Bradbury encourages us, through his description, to stop and to experience being drenched in what it is like to be on this imaginary Venus. Only two things happen in terms of plot: the sun comes out and Margot, who longs so deeply to see it, is locked away in a closet by the other children. The rest is the longing mood Bradbury evokes.<\/p>\n

Question 2.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhat is the theme of all summer in a day by Ray Bradbury?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe theme for \u201cAll Summer in a Day\u201d is bullying and jealousy. Kids, and people alike, can be so mean when they are confronted with someone different than their current understanding or when they are jealous. Margot had known what the sun looked, and felt like when she lived on Earth; but, the children of Venus who get to see the sun for two hours once every seven years could not relate to her experience. The children wouldn\u2019t have locked Margot in the closet at that very special moment when the sun comes out if it had not have been for William. William is the antagonist who suggests that they lock her up because,the biggest crime of all was that she had come here only five years ago from Earth, and she remembered the sun and the way the sun was and the sky was when she was four in Ohio. And they, they had been on Venus all their lives, and they had been only two years old when last the sun came out and had long since forgotten the color and heat of it and the way it really was. But Margot remembered.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here we see that motive behind the rage and jealousy that the children felt for Margot. Whether it is one situation or another, Bradbury brings out a true principle of the human condition with this story; and that is the effects that jealousy can have when acted upon.<\/p>\n

Question 3.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhat are examples of simile, metaphor, and personification in \u201cAll Summer in a Day\u201d?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nRay Bradbury\u2019s short story \u201cAll Summer in a Day\u201d has many different types of figures\u00a0 of speech. Similes compare two unlike things using the words \u201clike\u201d or \u201cas.\u201d Metaphors compare two unlike things using words like \u201cis\u201d or \u201cwas.\u201d Finally, personification occurs when an animal or inanimate object is given human traits or qualities. These figures of speech not only help to communicate what the author wants to portray in the story, but also helps readers to connect with something they may have already understood, which then creates more meaning for them in the story. For example, the following is a passage that demonstrates the use of simile and metaphor:<\/p>\n

‘All day yesterday they had read in class about the sun. About how like a lemon it was, and how hot.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 And they had written small stories or essays or poems about it:
\nI think the sun is a flower<\/strong>,
\nThat blooms for just one hour.\u2019
\nThe first figure of speech is a simile because it compares the sun to a lemon using the word \u201clike.\u201d Then, a metaphor is used when the sun is compared to a flower using the word \u201cis.\u201d
\nThe next passage has examples of two similes:
\n\u2018But Margot remembered.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s like a penny<\/strong>,\u201d she said once, eyes closed.
\n\u201cNo it\u2019s not!\u201d the children cried.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s like a fire<\/strong>,\u201d she said, \u201cin the stove.\u201d
\nBoth figures of speech in this passage are similes because the sun is compared to a penny and then to fire using the word \u201clike.\u201d The next example demonstrates how personification is used in the story:<\/p>\n

\u2018They stood looking at the door and saw it tremble from her beating and throwing herself against it.\u2019<\/p>\n

In animate objects do not have the ability to tremble like people do; therefore, this is an example of personification. The door \u201ctrembles\u201d because it receives the impact of Margot\u2019s protest and anxiety about being trapped. It also seems as though Bradbury uses personification when Margot is locked in the closet to describe how her emotions powerfully transfer through the door as she pounds on it.<\/p>\n

Question 4.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhat is the central conflict of the story \u201cAll Summer in a Day\u201d?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe central conflict of the story is that Margot does not fit in with the other children.<\/p>\n

The basic situation is that it has been raining on Venus for seven years. The children, who are nine years old, do not remember ever seeing the sun. The sun is scheduled to come out, so the kids are very excited. Margot is excited too, but she is a child who just doesn\u2019t fit in.<\/p>\n

Margot is from Earth, and the other children are from Venus. In addition to that, Margot is delicate and sensitive and just doesn\u2019t associate with the other kids.<\/p>\n

They turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all tumbling spokes. Margot stood * alone. She was a veiy 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.<\/p>\n

The other kids tease Margot and don\u2019t understand her. They are envious of her, and like many kids they turn that envy to cruelty. When the class is preparing for the sun to come out, the children tease Margot for the poem she wrote. She remembers the sun, and that really eats at them.<\/p>\n

When the teacher leaves the room just as the sun is about to come out, the conflict comes to a head.
\n\u201cGet away !\u201d The boy gave her another push. \u201cWhat\u2019re you waiting for?\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, for the first time, she turned and looked at him. And what she was waiting for was in her eyes.<\/p>\n

The boy tells Margot it was all a joke, and suggests they lock her in the closet. He is using her desperation and expectation against her, even though all of the children want the same thing. They are all ramped up, and need a target for their energy and aggression. Margot is an easy target.<\/p>\n

Question 5.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhat is the climax of Ray Bradbury\u2019s \u201cAll Summer in a Day?\u201d
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe climax of Bradbury\u2019s short story is when the sun comes out for the first time in seven years. The kids have locked Margot in a closet and to their astonishment, the sun comes out. They bolt outside to the sun, frolicking and playing in the illumination. They play until it begins to rain and then they have to come back inside. It becomes evident to them, in a dawning- like realization, that they left Margot in the closet.<\/p>\n

This moment of the sun appearing is the climax because it is the point in which the action is the greatest. In the conflict between Margot and the group of students, it is at this point where the tension between both is the highest in an almost contradictory moment of unity and symmetry. It is Bradbury\u2019s genius to construct the situation so that Margot was actually right. Rather than praise her for her correct world view, the kids flock towards her absolute sense of accuracy and her vision, something that she is not able to appreciate because of being marginalized. The height of the plot, the moment where the action is most intense, is in this moment of unity, one in which there is validation but not for the person who advocated it. In this, there is a climax and a sense of diminishing action appears at the end when the children come to the silent realization that they have to release Margot out of the closet.<\/p>\n

Question 6.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhat is the setting of \u201cAll Summer in a Day\u201d?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe story is set in Venus sometime in the future on a day when the rain stops briefly.<\/p>\n

A group of children are living on Venus. It rains every day for seven years. The children have not seen the sun in all that time. The children are nine years old, and have not seen the sun since it came out seven years before for an hour.<\/p>\n

And this was the way life was forever on the planet Venus, and this was the schoolroom of the children of the rocket men and women who had come to a raining world to set up civilization and live out their lives.<\/p>\n

A girl named Margot came from Earth, and remembers the sun. The other children are angry because she has seen it and they haven\u2019t. On the one day the sun comes out they decide to lock her in a closet, and she misses the few minutes of sun.<\/p>\n

The story demonstrates that children are children, no matter the setting. The children are cruel to Margot because she is different, and because they are jealous. Due to their actions, she misses seeing the sun. Only then do the children regret what they have done.<\/p>\n

Question 7.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhat does \u201cI think the sun is a flower\u201d mean in Ray Bradbury\u2019s short story \u201cAll Summer in a Day\u201d?\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Answer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nIn Ray Bradbury\u2019s short story \u201cAll Summer in a Day,\u201d the metaphor \u201c think the sun is a flower\u201d was written in a poem about the sun by the protagonist Margo. In her poem, Margo aimed to describe the glow of the sun as a blooming flower. Though she doesn\u2019t specify what kind of flower, the reader might visualize a round golden daisy or poppy. The image of the flower helps capture the round, yellow image of the sun.<\/p>\n

In addition, Margo\u2019s metaphor parallels with the other children\u2019s experience in seeing the sun for the first time. As they look outside as the sun comes out, they see the \u201cgreat jungle that covered Venus\u201d transform. Suddenly, because of the sunshine, the jungle looks alive, flowing, and full of color, similar to a flower, as we see in the narrator\u2019s following description:<\/p>\n

It was a nest of octopi, clustering up great arms of fleshlike weed, wavering, flowering in this brief spring.<\/p>\n

Hence, as we can see, Margo\u2019s metaphor serves the purpose of likening the sun to a flower to capture the sun\u2019s color, shape, and glowing warmth. Margo\u2019s description of the sun parallels with the effect the sun has on nature found on Venus.<\/p>\n

Question 8.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhy was Margot unhappy on Venus in \u201cAll Summer in a Day\u201d?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nMargot is unhappy on Venus because she came from Earth and misses the sun. The story takes place on Venus, a planet where it rains almost all of the time. In fact, the sun has not come out in seven years. Margot, however, came from Earth five years before the story starts. That means that unlike the other children in her class, she remembers what the sun looks like. She misses it terribly.<\/p>\n

[She] sensed it, she was different and they knew her difference and kept away. There was talk that her father and mother were taking her back to Earth next year; it seemed vital to her that they do so, though it would mean the loss of thousands of dollars to her family.<\/p>\n

Margot does not get along with the other children. She doesn\u2019t play their games, and they are jealous of her for having recently been to Earth and for having the chance to go back. For this reason, the children bully Margot and she isolates herself. She doesn\u2019t seem to make any friends.<\/p>\n

On the day the sun is supposed to finally come out, the children decide to play a cruel trick on Margot. They tell her the scientists were wrong, and then lock her in a closet so that-when it does come out, she won\u2019t see it. She is horrified.<\/p>\n

They surged about her, caught her up and bore her, protesting, and then pleading, and then ciying, back into a tunnel, a room, a closet, where they slammed and locked the door. They stood looking at the door and saw it tremble from her beating and throwing herself against it.<\/p>\n

Although the children are cruel bullies, the trick they played was terrible. Margot is very sensitive and this will likely have a great effect on her. They know this, and seem just as horrified when they realize what they have done. After the sun leaves, they go to take her out again knowing that she will never be the same.<\/p>\n

Project<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Question 1.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhat makes Margot different from the other children? Why does this cause the other children dislike Margot?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nMargot is different from the other children because of her looks, her personality, and her experiences. Margot is \u201cfrail,\u201d and she is fair-haired and white-skinned, so much so that she looks colorless, like a washed-out photograph. Margot is quiet and withdrawn\u2014she doesn\u2019t have the boisterous personality that many of the other children have. Her voice is soft, and often she doesn\u2019t speak at all. She keeps her distance from the other children rather than joining in their antics. In fact, she is a very sensitive girl who seems to have some deep-seated emotional issues. When she screamed when the water touched her in the showers, that confirmed to the others how odd she was. Because she can remember living on Earth where the sun shone often, she finds the constant rain on Venus oppressive, and she seems to be depressed. That\u2019s why her parents plan to send her back to Earth soon. She doesn\u2019t fit in on Venus.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ‘<\/p>\n

Despite all those differences, the one thing that seems to set the children against Margot more than any other is that she has experiences they don\u2019t share. All the other children have a homogeneous background: They have been raised on Venus and know nothing of life outside the underground complex they live in. That Margot remembers seeing the Sun and that she knows about life on Earth first-hand makes the children jealous of her, even though Margot doesn\u2019t act like a know-it-all. Beyond that, the children know that she will have a chance to go back to Earth soon, a chance that evades the others. Her past experiences and her future plans set her apart from the others.<\/p>\n

Why the other children dislike Margot is a strong theme in the story. Bradbury creates a scenario that allows modern Earth-bound readers to examine their prejudices. Margot represents the \u201cother,\u201d and human beings instinctively despise those outside their own tribe. Perhaps her rich and varied experiences caused them to wish they could escape their underground home, so they became jealous. The fact that she wouldn\u2019t join their games might feel like an insult to them, so they lashed back to give her pain. But part of their dislike stems from a simple lust for power: Margot is weak and alone; they are strong and have numbers on their side. Such a condition spurs bullying, and that\u2019s what happens in the story.<\/p>\n

Although the story is overtly about children on a different planet in the future, it makes all readers, children and adults, think about how they treat others and whether they allow prejudices to mar their behavior.<\/p>\n

Question 2.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhat is the central conflict of the story \u201cAll Summer in a Day\u201d?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe central conflict of the story is that Margot does not fit in with the other children.<\/p>\n

The basic situation is that it has been raining on Venus for seven years. The children, who are nine years old, do not remember ever seeing the sun. The sun is scheduled to come out, so the kids are very excited. Margot is excited too, but she is a child who just doesn\u2019t fit in.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 –<\/p>\n

Margot is from Earth, and the other children are from Venus. In addition to that, Margot is delicate and sensitive and just doesn\u2019t associate with the other kids.<\/p>\n

\u2018They turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all tumbling spokes. 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 blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair.\u2019<\/p>\n

The other kids tease Margot and don\u2019t understand her. They are envious of her, and like many kids they turn that envy to cruelty. When the class is preparing for the sun to come out, the children tease Margot for the poem she wrote. She remembers the sun, and that really eats at them.<\/p>\n

When the teacher leaves the room just as the sun is about to come out, the conflict comes to a head.<\/p>\n

\u201cGet away !\u201d The boy gave her another push. \u201cWhat\u2019re you waiting for?\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, for the first time, she turned and looked at him. And what she was waiting for was in her eyes.<\/p>\n

The boy tells Margot it was all a joke, and suggests they lock her in the closet. He is using her desperation and expectation against her, even though all of the children want the same thing. They are all ramped up, and need a target for their energy and aggression. Margot is an easy target.<\/p>\n

Question 3.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhat are examples of simile, metaphor, and personification in \u201cAll Summer in a Day\u201d?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nRay Bradbury\u2019s short story \u201cAll Summer in a Day\u201d has many different types of figures of speech. Similes compare two unlike things using the words \u201clike\u201d or \u201cas.\u201d Metaphors compare two unlike things using words like \u201cis\u201d or \u201cwas.\u201d Personification occurs when an animal or inanimate object is given human traits or qualities. These figures of speech not only help to communicate what the author wants to portray in the story, but also help us to connect with something that we may have already understand, which then creates more meaning in the story. For example, the following is a passage that demonstrates the use of simile and metaphor:
\nAll day yesterday they had read in class about the sun. About how like a lemon it was, and how hot.
\nAnd they had written small stories or essays or poems about it:<\/p>\n

I think the sun is a flower<\/strong>,
\nThat blooms for just one hour.
\nThe first figure of speech is a simile because it compares the sun to a lemon using the word \u201clike.\u201d Then, a metaphor is used when the sun is compared to a flower using the word \u201cis.\u201d
\nThe next passage has examples of two similes:
\nBut Margot remembered.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s like a penny<\/strong>,\u201d she said once, eyes closed.,
\n\u201cNo it\u2019s not!\u201d the children cried.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s like a fire,\u201d she said, \u201cin the stove.\u201d
\nBoth figures of speech in this passage are similes because the sun is compared to a penny and then to fire using the word \u201clike.\u201d The next example demonstrates how personification is used in the story:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 .<\/p>\n

They stood looking at the door and saw it tremble from her beating and throwing herself against it.<\/p>\n

In animate objects do not have the ability to tremble like people do; therefore, this is an example of personification. The door \u201ctrembles\u201d because it receives the impact of Margot\u2019s protest and anxiety about being trapped. It also seems as though Bradbury uses personification when Margot is locked in the closet to describe how her emotions powerfully transfer through the door as she pounds on it.<\/p>\n

Question 4.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhy was Margot unhappy on Venus in \u201cAll Summer in a Day\u201d?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nMargot is unhappy on Venus because she came from Earth and misses the sun.<\/p>\n

The story takes place on Venus, a planet where it rains almost all of the time. In fact, the sun has not come out in seven years. Margot, however, came from Earth five years before the story starts. That means that unlike the other children in her class, she remembers what the sun looks like. She misses it terribly.<\/p>\n

She sensed it, she was different and they knew her difference and kept away. \u2018There was talk that her father and mother were taking her back to Earth next year; it seemed vital to her that they do so, though it would mean the loss of thousands of dollars to her family.\u2019<\/p>\n

Margot does not get along with the other children. She doesn\u2019t play their games, and they are jealous of her for having recently been to Earth and for having the chance to go back. For this reason, the children bully Margot and she isolates herself. She doesn\u2019t seem to make any friends.<\/p>\n

On the day the sun is supposed to finally come out, the children decide to play a cruel trick on Margot. They tell her the scientists were wrong, and then lock her in a closet so that when it does come out, she won\u2019t see it. She is horrified.<\/p>\n

\u2018They surged about her, caught her up and bore her, protesting, and then pleading, and then crying, back into a tunnel, a room, a closet, where they slammed and locked the door. They stood looking at the door and saw it tremble from her beating and throwing * herself against it.\u2019<\/p>\n

The children are cruel bullies, the trick they played was terrible. Margot is very sensitive and this will likely have a great effect on her. They know this, and seem just as horrified when they realize what they have done. After the sun leaves, they go to take her out again knowing that she will never be the same.<\/p>\n

Question 5.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhat is the theme of all summer in a day by Ray Bradbury?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe theme for \u201cAll Summer in a Day\u201d is bullying and jealousy. Kids, and people alike, can be so mean when they are confronted with so pie one different than their current understanding or when they are jealous. Margot had known what the sun looked and felt like when she lived on Earth; but, the children of Venus who get to see the sun for two hours once every seven years could not relate to her experience. The children wouldn\u2019t have locked Margot in the closet at that very special moment when the sun came out if it had not been for William. William is the antagonist who suggests that they lock her up because,. .the biggest crime of all was that she had come here only five years ago from Earth, and she remembered the sun and the way the sun was and the sky was when she was four in Ohio. And they, they had been on Venus all their lives, and they had been only two years old when last the sun came out and had long since forgotten the color and heat of it and the way it really was. But Margot remembered.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here we see the motive behind the rage and jealousy that the children felt for Margot. Whether it is one situation or another, Bradbury brings out a true principle of the human condition with this story; and that is the effect that jealousy can have when acted upon.<\/p>\n

Question 6.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhat is the climax of Ray Bradbury\u2019s \u201cAll Summer in a Day?\u201d
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe climax of Bradbury\u2019s short story is when the sun comes out for the first time in seven years. The kids have locked Margot in a closet and to their astonishment, the sun comes out. They bolt outside to the sun, frolicking and playing in the illumination. They play until it begins to rain and then they have to come back inside. It becomes evident to them, in a dawning- like realization, that they had left Margot in the closet.<\/p>\n

This moment of the sun appearing is the climax because it is the point in which the action is the greatest. In the conflict between Margot and the group of students, it is at this point where the tension between both is the highest in an almost contradictory moment of unity and symmetry. It is Bradbury\u2019s genius to construct the situation so that Margot was actually right. Rather than praise her for her correct world view, the kids flock towards her absolute sense of accuracy and her vision, something that she is not able to appreciate because of being marginalized. The height of the plot, the moment where the action is most intense, is in this moment of unity, one in which there is validation but not for the person who advocated it. In this, there is a climax and a sense of diminishing action appears at the end when the children come to the silent realization that they have to release Margot out of the closet.<\/p>\n

Question 7.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhat is the setting of \u201cAll Summer in a Day\u201d?
\nAnswer:<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe story is set in Venus sometime in the future on a day when the rain stops briefly.<\/p>\n

A group of children are living on Venus. It rains every day for seven years. The children have not seen the sun in all that time. The children are nine years old, and have not seen the sun since it came out seven years before for an hour.<\/p>\n

And this was the way of life forever on the planet Venus, and this was the schoolroom of the children of the rocket men and women who had come to a raining world to set up civilization and live out their lives.<\/p>\n

A girl named Margot came from Earth, and remembers the sun. The other children are angry because she has seen it and they haven\u2019t. On the one day the sun comes out they decide to lock her in a closet, and she misses the few minutes of sun.<\/p>\n

The story demonstrates that children are children, no matter the setting. The children are cruel to Margot because she is different, and because they are jealous. Due to their actions, she misses seeing the sun. Only then do the children regret what they have done<\/p>\n

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