It is said that people about to die from hypothermia remove their clothes, in an act referred to as ‘paradoxical undressing’. The story has been discussed in the context of magic realism, as a metaphor for the importance of Earth and difficulty in surviving outside of the human natural environment.We might also wonder at that final description of the lieutenant tearing off his clothes. A very notable difference is that in this version, the sun only appears every nine years. The director of photography was Robert Elswit, who went on to become an Academy Award winning cinematographer. 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. They let her out of the closet and stand frozen, ashamed over what they have done now that they finally understand what she had been missing.Ī 30-minute television adaptation was created, originally broadcast on the PBS' children's series WonderWorks in 1982.
At this point, one of them remembers Margot. The children run back inside as the sun disappears and it starts storming.
It begins to rain again, and the children start crying once they realize they won't get to see the sun again for another seven years. In their astonishment and joy, they all forget about Margot and gleefully rush to play outside, savoring every second of their newfound freedom. The teacher arrives to take the class outside to enjoy their hour of sunshine. Just before the sun comes out, a boy named William rallies the other children, and they lock Margot in a closet down a tunnel. The other children, being too young to have ever seen it themselves, do not believe her. She describes the sun to the other children as being like a "penny" or "fire in the stove". One of the children, Margot, moved to Venus from Earth five years earlier and is the only one who remembers the sun, since it shines regularly on Earth. The story is about a class of students on Venus, which, in this story, is a world of constant rainstorms, where the sun is only visible for one hour every seven years. " All Summer in a Day" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury, first published in the March 1954 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Short story by Ray Bradbury "All Summer in a Day"
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