Sample Essay:

Notice how the subject of all three body paragraphs are included in the intro

“All Summer In A Day”

Jesse Castaneda

In Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day,” a little girl is discriminated against because she is different. Margot lives on Venus, where it is always raining. Margot came from Earth and has seen the sun (Body 1). The children on Venus have not, and it makes them very jealous and depressed. For being different, they make Margot into an outcast (Body 2). They even lock Margot in a closet when the sun comes out for the first time in seven years (Body 3).

            Margot is different from the kids on Venus because she has seen the sun. “She remembered the sun and the sky” (p.2). She always stood apart from the other kids. All the kids were mean to her. She missed her home. “She had come here from Earth only five years ago” (p.2). Margot does not like taking showers. It reminded her of rain. “Once she had refused to shower in the school shower rooms” (p.2).

            Because Margot is different, everyone treated her with disrespect. “They hated her pale face” (p.2). They were always mocking her and pushing her. “ ‘Get away!’ the boy gave her another push” (p.2). They even went as far as locking her in a closet. All these things come down to Margot being different.

            The children of Venus are in depression because the sun hasn’t been out for a long time. “Seven years ago the sun came out for and hour” (p.1). Margot was from Earth so she really missed the sun. Then, the sun came out. The children of Venus felt the warmth touch their skin and everyone was playing and they were happy. But Margot was in the closet where the kids had locked her. This punishment was exceptionally cruel because the sun came out and Margot wanted to see it more than anyone else.

            In Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day,” a little girl was discriminated against for being different. The children mocked her and even locked her in a closet. Because of rain, the kids on Venus turned into little devils. But they all learned a great lesson from the brief period of sunlight.