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All Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury
In the story “All Summer in a Day”, Ray Bradbury uses comparisons, sentence variety and descriptive word or sentences to show that the sun is important in the children's lives. The story is about children who live on venus and have never seen the sun because it only comes out every 7 years. But there is this girl named margot who she claims she has seen the sun and the other children in the class don’t believe her so, before the sun comes out for the first time in 7 years the other kids lock her in a closet and she doesn’t get to experience the sun like the other kids. The sun is important to them because they have never been able to experience the sun and I brings them joy.

The author used comparisons to show that the sun is important in the children’s lives. In the text it says “ And they had written small stories or essays or poems about it:I think the sun is a flower,That blooms for just one hour.” this quote from the text shows that the sun is important to the children because, the children and the teacher were taking the time out of there day to write about the sun, as they had never seen it before. Another reason why I think this quote shows that the sun has importance in their lives is because, they are making a poem and one of the
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The next quote shows that the sun is important in their lives because it brings them joy. In the passage it says “Then, wildly, like

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