An Analysis Of Happier And All Summer In A Day

Nearly everyone around the world makes mistakes. Some are minor mistakes, while many cause a ripple effect. At times, making mistakes that involve the close people around us can create a feeling of loss or defeat. This universal theme is brought to text in “All Summer in a Day”, by Ray Bradbury, and “Happier”, by Ed Sheeran. In “All Summer in a Day”, Margot’s classmates put Margot down by bullying her and robbing her of her chance to see the sun, although they soon become aware of how unpleasant they were to her, which results in them being upset and depressed. In “Happier”, Sheeran becomes aware of how much he feels contrite about his mistakes in the past that negatively affected the girl he loved, and as a result, he has a hard time letting her go. Both “All Summer in a Day” and “Happier” use tone as a craft move to represent a common theme; however, the causes of the theme were different. A theme that is shared in both “All Summer in a Day” and “Happier” is that when one realizes how much they may of hurt another, it’s difficult for them to let him/her go. The tone was used as a craft move to show certain emotions and feelings in the characters in the story and the narrator in the song. In “All Summer in a Day”, the text states, “They stood as if someone had driven them, like so many stakes, into the floor. They looked at each other and then looked away. They glanced out at the world that was raining now and raining and raining steadily. They could not meet each other’s glances. Their faces were solemn and pale. They looked at their hands and feet, their faces down.” Bradbury used a disappointed tone to portray the classmate’s depressed feelings when they recalled Margot and how much they harmed her. The classmates pinpointed Margot’s Achilles Heel, which was her characteristics as well as her connection with the sun, and used it against her to make her feel miserable, although it ended it up hurting them in the end. Furthermore, tone is also used …show more content…
In “All Summer in a Day”, Bradbury makes it clear that the classmates notice their mistakes with Margot by their own sadness as well as Margot’s. A passage from the text states, “And then … A few cold drops fell on their noses and their cheeks and their mouths. The sun faded behind a stir of mist … ‘Margot!’ ‘What?’ ‘She’s still in the closet where we locked her.’ ‘Margot.’ “ This is showing that the classmates immediately felt horrible about what they did to Margot when the Sun disappeared and they went back to their depressing reality. On the other hand, Ed Sheeran in “Happier” realized how dissatisfied he is without the woman he loves when he sees how delighted she is with someone else. For example, a few lyrics from “Happier” state, “He said something to make you laugh. I saw that both your smiles were twice as wide as ours. Yeah, you look happier, you do.” The narrator in this song is grieving the lost of the one he loved even more when he perceives her being happier with another person. The classmates in “All Summer in a Day” begin to feel ashamed when they become depressed, although the narrator in “Happier feels woeful when he sees the person he hurt better off with somebody