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Genre : / 80's/ Out of print / fantasy/ shorts/Made-for-TV/Wonderworks/PBS "All Summer in a Day" is a short story by the author Ray Bradbury. This story was originally published in the March 1954 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
The story is about a class of school children on Venus, which in this tale is a jungle world of constant flooding rainstorms ocassionated by the water being constanly evaporated by Venus high temperatures these leads to a planet were the sun is only visible for two hours every seven years. Such an occurrence is imminent.
One of the children, Margot, had moved to Venus from Earth five years before the story takes place, and she is the only one in her class to remember sunshine due to the fact that the other children were to young to remember it. She has become frail and miserable there by the constant bullying, due to jealousy of the sunshine theme, of course she has a nervous breakdown do to the fact that she's being bullied, and because she has not seen the sun for 5 years. Once a month ago, she had refused to shower in the school shower rooms, had clutched her hands to her ears and over her head, screaming her lungs out. And when the teacher asks them to write a poem about the sun it only gets worse: - "I think the sun is a flower,
- That blooms for just one hour."
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