Rain Imagery In Ray Bradbury's All Summer In A Day
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In Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer In a Day,” rain imagery, which appeals to visual sense, was utilized to support illustrate a gloomy and a depressing mood in the readers. When the kids were looking outside the window anxiously waiting for the sun to appear, the weather in Venus is described as “drum and gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands” (Bradbury 155). The author employs rain imagery here to portray the setting of planet Venus vividly by using descriptive phrases about the rain such as “drum and gush of water” and “concussion of storms,” which suggests that the setting is not happy as the rain seems extremely violent striking continuously as