All Summer in a Day - wikipedia All Summer in a Day `` All Summer in a Day '' Author Ray Bradbury Country United States Language English Published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Media type Magazine Publication date March 1954 Followed by `` Fahrenheit 451 '' `` All Summer in a Day '' is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury, first published in the March 1954 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Contents 1 Plot synopsis 2 Adaptations 2.1 Cast 3 In popular culture 4 Trivia 5 References 6 External links Plot synopsis 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 1 hour every seven years. ( This story was written before Mariner 2 discovered that the surface temperature on Venus is higher than the boiling point of water. ) One of the children, Margot, moved to Venus from Earth five years earlier, and she is the only one in her class to remember sunshine, since the Sun shone regularly on Earth. She describes the Sun as `` a penny '', or `` like a fire in the stove '', and the other children, being too young ever to have seen it themselves, do not believe her. The other students bully and ostracize her and just before the sun comes out, they lock her in a closet down a tunnel. As the Sun is about to appear, their teacher arrives to take the class outside to enjoy their one hour of sunshine and, in their astonishment and joy, they all forget about Margot. They run, play, skip, jump, and prance about, savoring every second of their newly found freedom. `` It 's much better than sun lamps ! '' one of them cries. Suddenly, a girl catches a raindrop in her hands. Thunder sounds, and they start to pick as many flowers as they can before it starts pouring again and run back inside. At this point, one of them remembers Margot, who is still locked in the closet. Ashamed, they let her out of the closet, standing frozen, embarrassed over what they have done, and unable to `` meet each other 's glances. '' The precious Sun has come and gone and, because of their despicable act, Margot, who loved the Sun the most, has missed it. Adaptations A 30 - minute television adaptation, originally broadcast on the PBS ' children 's series WonderWorks in 1982. The ending is expanded to show the children atoning for their horrible act by giving Margot flowers that they picked while the Sun was out. The director of photography was Robert Elswit, who went on to become an Academy Award winning cinematographer. Cast Reesa Mallen as Margot Keith Coogan as William Tammy Simpson as Paula Jerry Marshak as Michael Bridget Meade as Lisa Edith Fields as Mrs. Callaghan In popular culture All Summer in a Day is alluded to in a description of main character Oscar Wao, from Junot Díaz 's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. `` Sucks a lot to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years. '' Although in Bradbury 's All Summer in a Day, it comes out every seven years. The story also is referenced in chapter 22 of Karen Thompson Walker 's novel The Age of Miracles. The story is referenced in Season 3 Episode 2 of the cartoon Drawn Together when the character Toot is trapped in the closet and does n't get to experience the Wiener Man 's hot dog offerings. Trivia This story is about Venus and the Sun. Coincidentally, author Ray Bradbury died the same day as a very rare celestial event, a transit of Venus across the Sun. References Jump up ^ Publication history for `` All Summer in a Day '' at Author Wars web site. `` This text is available under a Creative Commons License and may have been adapted from the All Summer in a Day bibliography at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. '' Retrieved from http://authors.wizards.pro/books/titles/58363/all-summer-in-a-day. Jump up ^ All Summer In A Day Pt. 3 on YouTube Jump up ^ The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz, pg. 23 Jump up ^ Coleman, Loren ( 2012 - 06 - 06 ). `` Martian Author Dies During Venus Transit ''. Retrieved 2012 - 06 - 06. External links All Summer in a Day title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Resources for finding the story Ray Bradbury Bibliography Novels The Martian Chronicles ( 1950 ) Fahrenheit 451 ( 1953 ) Dandelion Wine ( 1957 ) Something Wicked This Way Comes ( 1962 ) The Halloween Tree ( 1972 ) Death Is a Lonely Business ( 1985 ) A Graveyard for Lunatics ( 1990 ) Green Shadows, White Whale ( 1992 ) From the Dust Returned ( 2001 ) Let 's All Kill Constance ( 2002 ) Farewell Summer ( 2006 ) Short stories `` The Scythe '' ( 1943 ) `` The Lake '' ( 1944 ) `` Frost and Fire '' ( 1946 ) `` The Million Year Picnic '' ( 1946 ) `` The Small Assassin '' ( 1946 ) `` I See You Never '' ( 1947 ) `` Fever Dream '' ( 1948 ) `` The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl '' ( 1948 ) `` The Long Years '' ( 1948 ) `` Mars Is Heaven ! '' ( 1948 ) `` Dark They Were, and Golden - Eyed '' ( 1949 ) `` The Exiles '' ( 1949 ) `` Marionettes, Inc. '' ( 1949 ) `` The Long Rain '' ( 1950 ) `` The Rocket '' ( 1950 ) `` There Will Come Soft Rains '' ( 1950 ) `` The Veldt '' ( 1950 ) `` Ylla '' ( 1950 ) `` Embroidery '' ( 1951 ) `` The Fog Horn '' ( 1951 ) `` Here There Be Tygers '' ( 1951 ) `` The Pedestrian '' ( 1951 ) `` The April Witch '' ( 1952 ) `` A Sound of Thunder '' ( 1952 ) `` The Wilderness '' ( 1952 ) `` The Flying Machine '' ( 1953 ) `` The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind '' ( 1953 ) `` The Meadow '' ( 1953 ) `` The Murderer '' ( 1953 ) `` Sun and Shadow '' ( 1953 ) `` All Summer in a Day '' ( 1954 ) `` The Dragon '' ( 1955 ) `` The Aqueduct '' ( 1979 ) `` Banshee '' ( 1984 ) `` The Toynbee Convector '' ( 1984 ) `` Is That You, Herb ? '' ( 2003 ) Collections Dark Carnival ( 1947 ) The Illustrated Man ( 1951 ) The Golden Apples of the Sun ( 1953 ) The October Country ( 1955 ) A Medicine for Melancholy ( 1959 ) The Day It Rained Forever ( 1959 ) The Small Assassin ( 1962 ) R Is for Rocket ( 1962 ) The Machineries of Joy ( 1964 ) The Autumn People ( 1965 ) The Vintage Bradbury ( 1965 ) Tomorrow Midnight ( 1966 ) S Is for Space ( 1966 ) Twice 22 ( 1966 ) I Sing the Body Electric ( 1969 ) Ray Bradbury ( 1975 ) Long After Midnight ( 1976 ) The Fog Horn & Other Stories ( 1979 ) The Last Circus and the Electrocution ( 1980 ) The Stories of Ray Bradbury ( 1980 ) The Fog Horn and Other Stories ( 1980 ) Dinosaur Tales ( 1983 ) A Memory of Murder ( 1984 ) The Toynbee Convector ( 1988 ) Classic Stories 1 ( 1990 ) Classic Stories 2 ( 1990 ) The Parrot Who Met Papa ( 1991 ) Selected from Dark They Were, and Golden - Eyed ( 1991 ) Quicker Than the Eye ( 1996 ) Driving Blind ( 1997 ) Ray Bradbury Collected Short Stories ( 2001 ) One More for the Road ( 2002 ) Bradbury Stories : 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales ( 2003 ) The Cat 's Pajamas : Stories ( 2004 ) A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories ( 2005 ) The Dragon Who Ate His Tail ( 2007 ) Summer Morning, Summer Night ( 2007 ) A Pleasure to Burn ( 2010 ) The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury ( 2011, 2014 ) Plays The Meadow ( 1947 ) The Flying Machine : A One - Act Play for Three Men ( 1953 ) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and Other Plays ( 1972 ) Pillar of Fire and Other Plays ( 1975 ) The Martian Chronicles ( 1986 ) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit ( 1986 ) Fahrenheit 451 ( 1986 ) Dandelion Wine ( 1988 ) The Veldt ( 1988 ) Adaptations It Came from Outer Space ( 1953 ) Moby Dick ( 1956 screenplay ) `` I Sing the Body Electric '' ( 1962 ) The Picasso Summer ( 1969 ) The Illustrated Man ( 1969 ) The Martian Chronicles ( 1980 miniseries ) The Electric Grandmother ( 1982 ) Something Wicked This Way Comes ( 1983 ) Bradbury 13 ( radio series, 1983 - 84 ) The Ray Bradbury Theater ( TV series, 1985 - 86, 1988 - 92 ) The Halloween Tree ( 1993 ) Dandelion Wine ( 1997 ) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit ( 1998 ) A Sound of Thunder ( 2005 ) Ray Bradbury 's Chrysalis ( 2008 ) The Whispers ( 2015 ) Miscellaneous Futuria Fantasia ( 1939 - 1940 ) The Mummies of Guanajuato ( 1978 ) Zen in the Art of Writing ( 1990 ) It Came from Outer Space ( 2003 book ) Related Spaceship Earth Bradbury Landing Ray Bradbury Award Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=All_Summer_in_a_Day&oldid=814830969 '' Categories : 1954 short stories Short stories by Ray Bradbury Venus in fiction Works originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Science fiction short stories Talk Contents About Wikipedia Հայերեն Русский Edit links This page was last edited on 11 December 2017, at 04 : 57. 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Question: who are the main characters in all summer in a day
Answer: Margot