North Virginia Community College All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury Essay
This assignment will be graded only for completion, and used to evaluate your critical reading and writing skills so that we can best prepare for the semester.
First, please read the short story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury. It is available under class files or the weekly module. Then answer the following questions and submit your responses by 11:59 PM on the evening of October 20:
1. In 3-4 sentences, please write a brief summary of the story.
2. What might be the ‘lesson’ or ‘purpose’ of the story?
3. Find 2 examples of figurative language or imagery in the story and copy them here.
4. At the end of the story, what questions do you have for the author? What critiques do you have about the story or how it was written?
