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All Summer Analysis

Read the original plot overview below, then use details from it to analyze setting, conflict, character, and theme. The overview is written for this worksheet; it is not the story's original text.

A Rare Day of Sun

In Ray Bradbury’s science-fiction story “All Summer in a Day,” people live in underground shelters on Venus, where rain has fallen almost without stopping for years. The children in one classroom have never experienced the sun themselves. Margot, however, remembers it: she lived on Earth before moving to Venus. She describes sunlight as warm and bright, but her classmates doubt her and resent the difference between her memories and their own. As the long-awaited break in the rain approaches, the children’s excitement turns into a cruel decision. They shut Margot in a closet and go outside without her. For a short time, sunlight transforms the world. Then the rain returns. The children remember Margot and understand that she has missed the one experience she had been waiting for. The story leaves them facing the harm caused by their choice.

Understand the Story

Answer using details from the overview. For written responses, explain your thinking.

1.Where does the story take place, and what unusual weather shapes the characters’ lives?
2.Which detail best explains why Margot remembers the sun when her classmates do not?
  • She has lived on Earth before moving to Venus.
  • She has studied the sun in a science lab.
  • She has visited the planet’s surface many times.
  • She has heard the teacher describe it.
3.Choose two traits that best describe the classmates’ behavior toward Margot. Explain each choice with an event from the overview.
4.True or false: The setting is only a backdrop and has little effect on the conflict.
TrueFalse
5.Put these events in the order they happen by writing 1, 2, and 3: ___ The rain returns. ___ The children lock Margot away. ___ The children experience sunlight.
6.What is the central conflict in the overview?
  • Margot’s classmates exclude her because they resent and doubt her memories.
  • The teacher tries to stop the rain from falling.
  • Margot tries to persuade her family to return to Earth.
  • The children compete to see who can stay outside longest.
7.The brief sunlight is a turning point. What changes for the children during this moment, and what makes it especially painful for Margot?
8.Complete the idea: One possible theme is that . Support your theme with one event from the overview.
9.At the end, what might the children be feeling? Name two feelings and explain what causes them.
10.Imagine the story took place somewhere that had sunny days every week. How might that change the importance of the sunlight and the children’s decision? Use the overview to support your answer.

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