"All Summer in a Day" is a science fictionshort storyby American writer Ray Bradbury, first published in the March 1954 issue ofThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.[1]
The story is about a class of students on Venus, which, in this story, is a world of constant rainstorms, where the sun is visible for only one hour every seven years. One of the children, Margot, moved to Venus from earth five years earlier, and she is the only one who remembers sunshine, since the Sun shone regularly on Earth. When the teacher asks them to write a poem about the sun, hers is: "I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour." She describes the Sun as "a penny", or "like a fire in the stove". The other children, being too young ever to have seen it themselves, do not believe her. Led by a boy named William, they bully and antagonize her, and just before the sun comes out, William rallies the other children and they lock her in a closet down a tunn…
The story is about a class of students on Venus, which, in this story, is a world of constant rainstorms, where the sun is visible for only one hour every seven years. One of the children, Margot, moved to Venus from earth five years earlier, and she is the only one who remembers sunshine, since the Sun shone regularly on Earth. When the teacher asks them to write a poem about the sun, hers is: "I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour." She describes the Sun as "a penny", or "like a fire in the stove". The other children, being too young ever to have seen it themselves, do not believe her. Led by a boy named William, they bully and antagonize her, and just before the sun comes out, William rallies the other children and they lock her in a closet down a tunn…