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.