All Summer in a Day inside questions

 

All Summer in a Day

                                                             -         Ray Douglas Bradbury

1.    “Do the scientists really know? Will it happen today, will it?”

i.                   Where does this line occur?

Answer: - This line occurs in the story ‘All Summer in a Day’ by Ray Douglas Bradbury.

ii.                 What will happen?

Answer: - The sun will appear after seven years on Venus.

2.    “It’s stopping, it’s stopping!”

i.                   Who is the writer of the text?

Answer: - Ray Douglas Bradbury is the writer of the text.

ii.                 When was the story published?

Answer: - The story ‘All Summer in a Day’ published in March 1954.

iii.              What was stopping?

Answer: - The rain was stopping after seven years on that day.

iv.              Do you find any note of excitement here? If yes why was there?

Answer: - Yes. There was excitement.

Because the children were eagerly waiting for a momentous occasion. It had been raining for seven years and now the scientist on Venus had predicted that the sun would appear for a brief period of time.

3.    “And they had written small stories or essays or poems about it:”

i.                   Where does this line occur?

Answer: - This line occurs in the story ‘All Summer in a Day’ by Ray Douglas Bradbury.

ii.                 Who are they here?

Answer: - The children are referred to here as ‘they’.

iii.              On what subject do they write stories or essays or poems?

Answer: -

 

1.    “Now the rain was slackening, and the children were crushed in the great thick windows.”

i.                   Where do you find this line?

Answer: - This line is found in the story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray     Douglas Bradbury.

ii.                 Do you find any rhetoric here? If yes What is that?

Answer: - Yes. The rhetoric is Hyperbole.

 

iii.              Do you agree that a window can be thick? If not then explain.

Answer: - 

2.    “Margot stood alone.”

i.                   Who is Margot?

Answer: - Margot, the protagonist of “All Summer in a Day,” is a nine-year-old girl who moved from Ohio to the planet Venus when she was four years old.

 

ii.                 Why did she stand alone?

Answer: - Margot stood alone because she was sad.

 

iii.              Describe the effect of rain on her?

Answer: - Margot was a thin and delicate 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. She was an old photograph dusted from an album, whitened away.

 

3.    “There was talk that her father and mother were taking her back to Earth next year.”

i.                   Who is the writer of the text?

Answer: - Ray Douglas Bradbury is the writer of the text.

 

ii.                 About whom is this said?

Answer: - About Margot this is said.

 

iii.              Why Was there such a talk?

 

                   Answer: - There was a rumour that Margot's parents were taking  her back to Earth next year. It seemed important to Margot that they do so because she hated Venus and could not survive without the Sun on Venus. The decision to take Margot back to Earth would mean loss of thousands of dollars to her family.

1.    “Then, for the first time, she turned and looked at him. And what she was waiting for was in her eyes.”

i.                   Whose eyes is meant here?

ii.                 What was seen in her eyes and when?

2.    “ “Oh, but, ” Margot whispered, her eyes helpless. “But this is the day, the scientists predict, that say, they know, the sun…” ”

i.                   Who is Margot?

ii.                 Where was she standing at that time?

iii.              What did the scientist predict?

3.     “The door slid back and the smell of the silent, waiting world came in to them.”

i.                   Which door is referred to here?

ii.                 Which world is meant here?

iii.              Why was the world called sound and waiting?

4.    “They put their hands up to that yellowness and that amazing blueness and they breathed of the fresh, fresh air and listened and listened to the silence which suspended them in a blessed sea of no sound and no motion.”

i.                   Who are ‘they’ here?

ii.                 Why did they put their hand into their ears?

iii.              What do you mean by the phrase ‘a blessed of no sound and no motion’?

5.    “Will it be seven more years?”

i.                   Do you find any note of pathos here? If yes what is that.

ii.                 What was being talked to here?

6.    “They unlocked the door, even more slowly, and let Margot out.”

i.                   Who are they here?

ii.                 Where was Margot locked and by whom?