English: All Summer In One Day

Hi, Today in English we've read a short story called "All summer in one day by Ray Budry. We were tasked to blog about the story answering a set of questions in our blog relating to the story.

All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury.

1. Find 3 words you don’t know the meaning of. Look them up and write the definitions in your post.

Intermixed - Mixed together

Feverish - having or showing the symptoms of a fever.

Immense - extremely large or great, especially in scale or degree.

2. Discuss the Exposition of the story -- what are the characters, setting, and mood?

The setting of this story is held on the planet Venus, in a classroom-- where it was always raining and the sun only shines out every seven years for 2 hours only. Humans travelled to Venus seven years ago to try to make living out of it.

The main character was Margot, she was different from everybody else. It is because she remembered how the sun looked like from Earth because she was 5 years old before she moved from Earth, so she could pretty much visualise how the sun was. While her other classmates were only 2 years old and they barely remember how the sun looked. They were sceptical of her and didn't believe her when she told them the sun would come out today in Venus.

They decided to lock her in the closet. But later on in the story, Margot was right about the sun coming out today and they felt ashamed of what they've done. Margot was even looking forward to seeing the sun but she missed it because of her terrible classmates.

3. List and label one metaphor, one simile, and one example of sensory language from the story.

Metaphor:

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

Simile:

"Then, wildly, like animals escaped from their caves"

One example of sensory language:

"They put their hands up to that yellowness and that amazing blueness and they breathed of the fresh, fresh air and listened and listened to the silence which suspended them in a blessed sea of no sound and no motion"

        4. List and label an example of the show not tell from the story.

"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."

"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."