Modern American culture includes an alarming amount of conformity and censorship that spews from television, the media, and social networking, that has significantly changed the original definition of what America stands for. A self-taught American fantasy and horror author named Ray Bradbury, was a very adamant individual that strongly supported the lessening of censorship in American culture and the increasing freedom of thought throughout. The common theme of encouraging individualistic, free thinking while rebelling against censorship and conformity is found in many of his works, especially in his most famous novel Fahrenheit 451, but is also prevalent in many of his short stories including “The Veldt”, “All Summer in a Day”, and “The
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There is symbolism behind the light which could represent the revival of true life, the breaking of conformity, the exposure of censorship, and the true freedom of thought, all of these instances that should make humans feel truly alive and warm inside. Bradbury talks about this one girl named Margo that has come from Earth five years ago and desperately misses the sun. The narrator in the story is depicting what Margo knows about the other kids when she claims “She knew they thought they remembered a warmness, like a blushing in the face, in the body, in the arms and legs and trembling hands. But then they always awoke to the tatting drum, the endless shaking down of clear bead necklaces (rain) upon the roof, the walk, the gardens, the forests, and their dreams were gone.” which suggests the rain could be the constant censor, not allowing life to thrive, gardens to bloom, people to feel warm and happy, people given the freedom to express their ideas, but there is this one point, one day every seven years where the sun does shine. Margo is bullied and pushed around because of the way she acts, so in love with the sun, and miserable otherwise, but is very excited to experience life in the hands of the warm sun again. She has waited five years for that liberation and she does not get it. Her classmates lock her in a closet because she is so different and easy to push around and they leave her in there all day. This could be a commentary on human society about how the conformed gang up on the original thinker and shut them out, preventing them from spreading their ideas and attempting to enlighten others. Bradbury again puts immense stress on the importance of the problem of free thought being hindered or shut out by the ignorant, mean, conformed and
There is symbolism behind the light which could represent the revival of true life, the breaking of conformity, the exposure of censorship, and the true freedom of thought, all of these instances that should make humans feel truly alive and warm inside. Bradbury talks about this one girl named Margo that has come from Earth five years ago and desperately misses the sun. The narrator in the story is depicting what Margo knows about the other kids when she claims “She knew they thought they remembered a warmness, like a blushing in the face, in the body, in the arms and legs and trembling hands. But then they always awoke to the tatting drum, the endless shaking down of clear bead necklaces (rain) upon the roof, the walk, the gardens, the forests, and their dreams were gone.” which suggests the rain could be the constant censor, not allowing life to thrive, gardens to bloom, people to feel warm and happy, people given the freedom to express their ideas, but there is this one point, one day every seven years where the sun does shine. Margo is bullied and pushed around because of the way she acts, so in love with the sun, and miserable otherwise, but is very excited to experience life in the hands of the warm sun again. She has waited five years for that liberation and she does not get it. Her classmates lock her in a closet because she is so different and easy to push around and they leave her in there all day. This could be a commentary on human society about how the conformed gang up on the original thinker and shut them out, preventing them from spreading their ideas and attempting to enlighten others. Bradbury again puts immense stress on the importance of the problem of free thought being hindered or shut out by the ignorant, mean, conformed and