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Movie vs Story

A planet that had all of its color washed away:  With all of its inhabitants wishing that the sun would come out after seven years.   The short story “All Summer in a Day” and the movie “All Summer in a Day” have a lot differences.

            The movie starts with Margot standing alone in the rain and all of the children playing kick the can. The movie probably did that to signify that Margot was the outsider in the group.  Next in the movie Margot has one friend who tries to cheer her up, which is completely opposite of what the story type line is. After that, the movie makes its ending with Margot being let out of the closet (from the kids puting her in there) and she walks outside. Then all of the class gave her flowers to show they’re sorry because Margot did not see the sun. William (the bully) was pleading that it was just a joke, while the class walks inside with Margot. Even the movie ended abruptly when they go inside.  The movie has mixed facts such as; the sun came out every nine years so that means that some of the children have never witnessed the sun.  They were all nine years old.  The second one, if she had a friend, Margot would probably not get caught in the closet but the friend in the movie did not do much to help Margot. 

 This story starts out with the kids in a class room talking about if the scientists are going get the prediction right of when the sun will come out. This symbolizes children gossiping about current events and friends.  In the story said the sun came out seven years ago so the kids might have seen the sun. The story ends with the kids forcing Margot into the closet and the entire class opening the door to the closet that Margot was in.  This story ends abruptly; you don’t know what happens to Margot, she could be very sad and run home or forgive the class.  The class could apologize to her and try to make it up to her for locking her in the closet while the sun was out. In the story Margot feels alone, no one likes her and William is in control of the class through being the bully. I never had an instance where I felt everyone was against me because I’m a pretty likeable guy. In many stories the bully plays a key role like in the short story. In “The Glorious Whitewasher” by Mark Twain the bully is basically what made Toms plan to make other people do his work, worked because no one would stand up to the bully.

            Movies and the books are always different.  Movies usually miss some important details so if you are just seeing the movie “All Summer in a Day” you might be missing something.