The sun is a flower, that blooms for just one hour

All summer in a day by Ray Bradbury is about a girl named Margot that lives in the planet Venus, in which it never stops raining and the sun only comes out once in every 7 years. Scientists predicted that that the day in witch the story is told the sun will come out for only two hours, Margot was very excited not only for that but because their parents had told her that she was going back to earth in a year, the kids on the classroom were jealous and decided to trap her in a closet and leave her there while the sun came out and all the rest of the kids played. Finally the story ends when the kids feeling bad and letting Margot out of the closet, but the rain had started again it was too late she had lost her opportunity to see the sun.



One of the antagonist on this story is William we can see many times how his actions affect the protagonist(Margot):

"Hey, everyone, let’s put her in a

closet before the teacher comes !"

“They stood looking at the door and
saw it tremble from her beating and throwing
herself against it.”

This quotes reveal that William is jealous of  Margot and this lead to this unrespectful actions, and end up being selfish by taking away the opportunity to see the sun of someone else, knowing that the sun only comes out every 7 years.



I love how Bradbury uses strong imagery such as the example below to help us visualize the events on the story better:

“It was the color of rubber and ash,

this jungle, from the many years without sun.

It was the color of stones and white cheeses

and ink, and it was the color of the moon.”


Here ray is appealing to scenes of sight because by using adjectives to describe colors such as "color of stones and white cheeses" or " it was the color of the moon" we are not only able to create the image of how the jungle will look but its actual colors.



I really liked this story because I think that its message about bullying is so true on rea life and because it made me wonder a lot of things such as if life is actually possible in other planets. Also all the imagery used and the description of the setting makes the story s real while reading it and makes you want to keep reading.

inevitable death

An occurrence at the owl creek bridge

by Ambrose Bierce

An occurrence in the owl creek bridge by Ambrose Bierce is a story about Peyton Farquhar a men that is about to be hanged because of treason. But the rope brakes and he is able to free his hands and all the ropes while being under water. He is able to avoid all the bullets from the federal soldiers and finally reaches to his family, but as soon as he was going to hug her wife he feels a pain in his neck and we find out that Peyton is dead hanging on the owl creek bridge, and that all the story was simply his last wishes and his imagination,
nothing ever occurred.

On the story Peyton Farquhar is the protagonist and we are able to see many times how far his imagination goes:

"If I could free my hands," he thought, "I might throw off the noose and spring into the stream. By diving I could evade the bullets and, swimming vigorously, reach the bank, take to the woods and get away home.”

This reveals that Peyton is a determined man, and that his last wishes of life were not only to free himself and to save his life but to go home and be with the thing he loves most : his family.It also reveals that Peyton is willing to do everything in order to reach to his family.

I love how Ambrose uses imagery for us to be able to understand better what Peyton is experiencing:

A strange, roseate light shone through the spaces among their trunks and the wind made in their branches the music of Aeolian harps.


Ambrose is appealing not only to the senses of sight by using words such as "roseate and shone" to describe and to create this image on our mind, but also to the scenes of sound bu telling us how the branches made the sound of aeolian harps helping us to imagine what was Peyton experiencing,

I think that this is an awesome story; the way it mixes reality with imagination is so unexpected and makes the story so interesting. And it is so beautiful how it shows us the last wishes of a man that is abut to die and how far imagination can go.