An Analysis Of 'All Summer In A Day And Believer'

Everyone has a particular trait which makes them unique and different from others; it can lead someone into feeling either strong and confident or unsettled and distressed. This makes up who they personally are, exposing their true feelings and emotions. “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury and “Believer” by Imagine Dragons both use this universal truth to uncover some character’s true traits, bringing out their difference in the shadow to an even darker figure. In each story, the character’s end up with a heavy heart, standing out there alone and regretting their isolation. In “All Summer in a Day”, an introvert character named Margot stands out from the rest, hidden in the shadows of the rain. In “Believer”, the speaker believes in something
Both stories also use symbolism to portray some character’s melancholy feeling of being alone and friendless. In “All Summer in a Day” the text states, “ It had been raining for seven years...and this was the way life was forever on Venus… Margot stood apart… from these children who could ever remember a time when there wasn’t rain… she came only five years ago from Earth.... She remembered… the way the sun was and the sky was when she was four in Ohio” (Bradbury 1). This quote clearly shows that Margot was different from the rest of the students because she got to experience what others could not: the sun. She never fit in with the other students, not only because of her remembrance of the sun, but also because of her actions. She would never sing songs with them or play with the other students. It was as if she was a puzzle piece which was a part of a totally different set. A wild card. As a result, she wound up very alone and all the students could do now was tease her and make her feel like she didn’t belong. Similarly, in “Believer” the text states, “Oh let the bullets fly, oh let them rain… hope my
In “All Summer in a Day”, the author uses a lot of description of Margot to apply to the reader’s emotions. For example, to describe Margot, the text stated that “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 red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair.” In this quote, the author is describing Margot as if the rain affected her so much that it made her feel like a nobody or “a ghost”. By describing Margot’s heavy-hearted feelings of being abandoned and alone, the reader could feel Margot’s pain. However, in “Believer”, the author uses the craft move of first person narrator to really put the reader in his own shoes. For example, the lyrics states “You break me down, you build me up… you made me a believer”. This quote makes the reader of the lyrics feel like they are really involved in the piece as the narrator is referring to “you” as the cause of his pain and suffering. The reader feels more as if they were actually in the piece rather than just reading it. Also, the song-writer keeps on describing his own dejection, causing the readers to feel it too. Both texts apply to the reader’s emotions in a different way, affecting how the reader actually thinks of how the theme applies to each