One Hour of Sun

In Ray Bradbury’s story "All Summer in a Day", people lives in the planet Venus, and lives in rain.  Every 7 years the sun comes out in this planet. A girl named Margot, who lived in the earth has had seen the sun before, and she always described it better that the other kids.  One day they were crating poems and the kids were really mad because she did really well. That day the sun was supposed to come out. But the only one who believed in this was Margot. The other kids locked her in a closet, but that minute the sun came out and all the kids went running and felt the sun. But the sun only last for one hour. That  hour passed really fast and the kids forgot about Margot. When the sun was gone and the rain came again, they remembered about Margot and took her out of the closet. 

I like how Ray Bradbury uses imagery to make the reader visualize whats happening in the story.

"Sometimes, at night, she heard them stir in remembrance, and she knew they were dreaming and remembering gold and yellow crayon or a coin large enough to buy the world with." (1)

Bradbury is showing one of the scenes in this part of the story. He is describing how Margot heard the kids and the people stir when they were remembering of the sun and dreaming about how they thought it was.  You can imagine how the place is and the people wondering how the sun looks.

"Margot stood alone. She was a very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years and the rain had washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair."

This explains and describes that the main character, Margot is a very timid girl that has here own opinion about things. Also that living in this rain is making her depressed  and with no zest for live.

This story showed me that maybe in many years we will not have sun and we will live only in rain, so we have to take care of our planet because if not is going to be destroyed. The message of this short story is that we have to respect other people and do not make them feel uncomfortable of what they think. This means that we have to respect their opinion and do not judge what they do.

This music video talks about a year without rain in this story is the opposite 7 years without sun.

Step by Step Bringing Realize the Reality in which we Live

                                                                                                                                                                     Jonas was playing with Asher and Fiona. They were playing about war and killing each other in the game. Jonas reminded the memory of war. He was so angry that their own friends were playing this brutal game. He said them to stop and they were like why? He just lived because he didn’t want to see them play this game. He loved his friends so much but they couldn’t understand the importance of KILLING. They didn’t know anything about the world other people lived before. Jonas why curious about the release of the girl who the was the receiver of memory. The giver explained that she was doing her training but the memories of pain were too much for her.  So she asked for a RELEASE and the elders gave it to her. Jonas was confused because on his rules it said that he could not ask for a release. So the giver explained that when this girl asked for a release all the memories that she gained on her training were through all the community and everyone had the memories. It was a DISASTER. So from then on if you are the receiver of memories you cannot ask for a release. Jonas now understands and he wished he could see the release of the twins his dad was going to do.  The giver said that he could if he asked. Jonas wasn’t sure but he agreed. He was watching the screen and the video started. It was his dad putting a needle on one of the twins. When he finished the baby was with rare position. Jonas reminded one of the memories that someone died and it was the same position. He understood that release was killing and that his dad killed babies. And other people killed old or people who make more than 3 mistakes on the community. He didn’t think it was right so he wanted to change that. And from that day the giver and Jonas started planning something so they could make a difference.

This video shows the war between the Jews and Hitler. Hitler was killing so many people because he wanted sameness. In Jonas society they use release for sameness. For example with the twins the one who weighed less was release. When Jonas was watching his friends played the game he reminded of war and how so many people died.

“ No, I just have to make the selection. I weight them, hand the larger over to a nurturer Who’s

   standing by, waiting, and then I get the smaller one all cleaned up and comfy. Then I perform a small ceremony of release and" (pg.136)

In the page 136 Jonas father was talking about release of one of the twins. This part of the book makes me analyze and understand that in this community a new change or anything that is different would ruin the way of their living and their system of controlling the community. For example if they let both twins stay in the community this would make the pattern of their life a disaster. They would be confused and frustrated and will not know what to do. This means that their whole life is a pattern and a change will make them go crazy.  

This image is about two twins that will totally change the people in Jonas community because they are touching each other and they would confuse people because they are exactly the same.

Reading this book is making me curious I want to know what is going too happened in the next chapters. I think Jonas will go to change the world but someone is going to find out that Jonas is not on the city. I also think that baby Gabe is going to be part of Jonas family because they had have him for many time and have proved the committee of elders that they can stay with Gabriel. I want to know if Jonas is going to get to change the way this society lives and stop the killing of innocent people.

This image is how I think Jonas society is going to be after he make his plan true.