Ryan Harris
12-2-09
English
A Sum of many Fears
Response; All Summer in a Day


Many people can’t quite apprehend the overwhelming thought that everyone around them is almost the same. Betrayal from your closest companions will always end in true depression and insanity. However, to prevent this, one must avoid repressive actions and with others through communicative projects, but how? Life is a contradiction between being unique and being alike.
“Do the scientists really know? Will it happen today, will it?” Reading both of those sentences out of short story “All Summer in a Day” a certain sympathy comes out of me. For the little boys and girls living on Venus don’t quite understand how difficult their living conditions really are. How I would feel if every last single bit of hope was drained out of me, but Ray Bradbury emphasized this single part and unlocked a definition towards the hope and will, that many of these people had.

A story like this one is truly a horrifying irony between reality and the hardened children living on Venus. Plus, I was able to determine the reason the author selected Venus, because it's red. (This color symbolizes irony.)

Margot the main character of the story has absolutely no way to control herself and definitely no way to improvise those around her. She is considered insane by others and even after that she was somehow able to reveal a whole new level! When the teacher doesn’t even notice Margot’s absence I felt disturbed as to how the most responsible individual in the entire room can just release Margot from her mind without a bit of care. This very component represents the true irony, of good being weak. But, I consider it scary, how Margot is the base of the whole growing conflict.

Life itself always revolves around association with others, but when all that is crushed and everyone around you have turned their backs on you, the appeal of life itself is confined, you feel bareness. “Behind the closet door was only silence. They unlocked the door, even more slowly, and let Margot out.” Death, the one single most unanswered question to civilized and complete individuals, but death symbolism is depraved and all characters who may deny the growth and existence of humanity itself is an abuse to God himself, symbolized by silence. Laying in pieces that state of mind is the sum of all fear.