Real life and stories are not so far apart all the time, even if they sound incredibly fictional every story is linked to something that has happened. All Summer in a Day is about a young girl named Margot who lives on Venus where the sun only comes out once every seven years and only for a few hours. Margot is depressed, she used to live on Earth where the sun comes out at least once every few days, but now on Venus she misses the suns light and warmth. On the day that the sun is supposed to her class bullied her because she was different and locked her in a closet. Because of her classes behavior, she missed time the when the sun was out. Bulling makes people miss out on things that you would otherwise experience. Phoebe Prince was bullied so much that she killed herself, a real life example of what bulling can do to people and a non fiction version of All Summer In a Day. The reason these two stories are alike is that both Phoebe and Margot got bullied, in the end Margot didn't kill herself but I'm sure she felt horrible on the inside.
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Another connection that I see is between All Summer In A Day and the song "mean" by Taylor Swift. The song explains what it feels like to be bullied and that you can always get back up if someone knocks you down. It said that a bullied person can someday be successful and a bully will always just be mean. I find that the song describes Margot's life perfectly, which is quite sad. People are always knocking her down and telling her that she is so weird. I believe that the song really reaches people who have been bullied because it is so close to the truth. When I was reading All Summer In a Day I could see a prefect connection between the two.
Here is a clip of the song:
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When I read All Summer in a Day I was thinking to myself that Vancouver gets a lot of rain, which can get depressing in the winter, but what is the world record for the most consecutive days of rain? It turns out that the world record is 247 days in Kaneohe Ranch, Oahu, Hawaii. I couldn't imagine living with that much rain, even when it rains for only three consecutive days here, the whole city looks depressed. I can definitely picture how that amount of rain can make Margot depressed, it would to anyone who knows anything but that. In some ways I almost find it funny that Hawaii, a tropical chain of islands could actually have that much rain. But I bet that the town of Kaneohe Ranch didn't think it was that funny...
Here is a link to the news article that I got this information from:
www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/2006-01-15-kaneohe-rainfall_x.htm
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People discriminate aganst people for many reasons, most of the reasons aren't good reasons, people just discriminate to make themselves feel better. Humans do this to solidify what they think should be the social hierarchy, when people discriminate others they push themselves towards the top by pushing others down to the bottom of the pyramid, to set apart who they think are the weaker ones. Another reason why people discriminate against others is that they dont understand people and therefor they think that they are better than them. One example or this type of discrimination is slavery, people didnt understand others so the thought they were better than them and started controlling them. I believe that discrimination is a bad thing and it makes people feel less like the people who they are and more like the people that they think they should be in order to fit in. People like that are stuck thinking that changing who they are will help them not be discriminated against, even though they loose touch with who they really are.
When I read All Summer in a Day I was thinking to myself that Vancouver gets a lot of rain, which can get depressing in the winter, but what is the world record for the most consecutive days of rain? It turns out that the world record is 247 days in Kaneohe Ranch, Oahu, Hawaii. I couldn't imagine living with that much rain, even when it rains for only three consecutive days here, the whole city looks depressed. I can definitely picture how that amount of rain can make Margot depressed, it would to anyone who knows anything but that. In some ways I almost find it funny that Hawaii, a tropical chain of islands could actually have that much rain. But I bet that the town of Kaneohe Ranch didn't think it was that funny...
Here is a link to the news article that I got this information from:
www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/2006-01-15-kaneohe-rainfall_x.htm
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People discriminate aganst people for many reasons, most of the reasons aren't good reasons, people just discriminate to make themselves feel better. Humans do this to solidify what they think should be the social hierarchy, when people discriminate others they push themselves towards the top by pushing others down to the bottom of the pyramid, to set apart who they think are the weaker ones. Another reason why people discriminate against others is that they dont understand people and therefor they think that they are better than them. One example or this type of discrimination is slavery, people didnt understand others so the thought they were better than them and started controlling them. I believe that discrimination is a bad thing and it makes people feel less like the people who they are and more like the people that they think they should be in order to fit in. People like that are stuck thinking that changing who they are will help them not be discriminated against, even though they loose touch with who they really are.
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