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Revision as of 22:27, 4 March 2012
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| Short story by Ray Bradbury | |||
| Country | United States | ||
| Language | English, Arabic | ||
| Genre(s) | Science fiction | ||
| Publication | |||
| Published in | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | ||
| Media type | Magazine | ||
| Publication date | March 1954 | ||
| Published in English | December 25, 2011 | ||
| Chronology | |||
| Series | Ray Bradbury | ||
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"All Summer in a Day" is a short story by the author Ray Bradbury. This story was originally published in the March 1954 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.[1]
The story is about a class of school children on Venus, which in this tale is a jungle world of constant flooding rainstorms ocassionated by the water being constanly evaporated by Venus high temperatures these leads to a planet where the sun is only visible for one hour every seven years. Such an occurrence is imminent.
One of the children, Margot, had moved to Venus from Earth five years before the story takes place, and she is the only one in her class to remember sunshine due to the fact that the other children were too young to remember it. She has become frail and miserable there by the constant bullying, due to the other children's jealousy of her experience of sunshine. She has a nervous breakdown due to the fact that she's being bullied, and because she has not seen the sun for 5 years. Once a month before, she had refused to shower in the school shower rooms, had clutched her hands to her ears and over her head, screaming her lungs out.
And when the teacher asks them to write a poem about the sun it only gets worse:
- "I think the sun is a flower,
- That blooms for just one hour."
She describes it as "a penny", or "like a fire in the stove". The other children refuse to believe her, claiming that she's lying and doesn't remember. This only makes them mad. Leading William, the student who most often bullies her, to lock her in the closet during the predicted time of the sun coming out, and the others follow along with him.
As the sun is about to appear, the teacher arrives to take the class outside to enjoy their only hour of sunshine. In their astonishment and joy, they all forget about Margot. They run, play, skip, jump, and prance about, savoring every second of their newly found freedom. "It's much better than sun lamps!" one of them cries.
Suddenly, a girl feels a raindrop on her. Thunder sounds, and they run back inside. Then, one of them remembers Margot, still locked in the closet. They stand frozen ashamed for what they have done, unable to "meet each others glances." The precious sun has come and gone, leaving her still pale in gloom and darkness, not having seen it. They walk slowly towards the closet, now silent, and let her out.
Adaptation
Television episode
A 30 minute television adaptation, originally broadcast on the PB'S children's series "WonderWorks" in 1982, is somewhat less emotionally distressing. The ending is expanded to show the children atoning for their horrible act by giving Margot flowers that they picked while the sun was out.[2]
Pop culture
In the episode of the animation series Drawn Together entitled "Wooldoor Sockbat's Giggle Wiggle Funny Tickle Non-Traditional Progressive Multicultural Roundtable!" (Season 3, Episode 2), Ling-Ling and Foxxy lock Toot in the closet, while a weiner-mobile is parked outside of the house. In the joy and merriment of enjoying free weiners, they forget that Toot is locked away.[citation needed]
All Summer in a Day is mentioned in a description of main character Oscar Wao, from Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. "Sucks a lot to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in 100 years." Although in Bradbury's All Summer in a Day, it comes out every seven years. [3]
References
- ^ Publication history for "All Summer in a Day" at Author Wars web site. "This text is available under a Creative Commons License and may have been adapted from the All Summer in a Day bibliography at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database." Retrieved from http://authors.wizards.pro/books/titles/58363/all-summer-in-a-day.
- ^ All Summer In A Day Pt. 3 on YouTube
- ^ The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz, pg. 23
External links
- "All Summer in a Day" at BestScienceFictionStories.com - A review of the story with resources for finding it.
- The story in a printable Word document.