10: All Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury : Icse-x-english

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Answers from All Summer in a Day by Ray Douglas Bradbury
Read the extract and answer the following questions:

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Section : I
A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again. And this was the way life was forever on the planet Venus, and this was the schoolroom of the children of the rocket men and women who had come to a raining world to set up civilization and live out their lives. "It's stopping, it's stopping!" "Yes, yes!"

Qstn #1
Why were the children so excited?
Ans : The children had been living on the planet Venus where the sun shone once in seven years and it was the day when the sun was about to shine. Thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain, with the drum and gush of water with sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands.

Qstn #2
What was the impact of the rain?
Ans : The impact of the rain was very severe under which thousand forests had been crushed and many more grown thousand times to be crushed again. This was the way of life on the planet Venus forever. Also, heavy concussion of storms led the tidal waves to come over the islands. The continuous downpour changed the air of the atmosphere that made everybody look dull and pale

Qstn #3
Why didn't the children remember the sun?
Ans : The children had been living on the planet where the sun shone only once in seven years and that day the rain was stopping. These children did not remember a day when there wasn't rain. They were all nine years old but there had been a day, seven years ago when the sun came out for an hour and showed its face to the shocking world, but they could not remember this as at that time they were only two years old.

Qstn #4
What did the children dream about the sun?
Ans : The children had almost lost the remembrance of the sun. Sometimes at night, they dreamt and remembered gold or yellow crayon or a coin large enough to buy the world with. They thought they remembered blushing in the face, and warmness in the body, in the arms and legs and trembling hands.

Qstn #5
How was their dream shattered?
Ans : The children dreamt about the sun but their dream came to an end and they awoke to the sound of the drum. The endless shaking down of clear bead necklaces in the form of rain upon the roof, the walk, the gardens, the forests and their dreams were shattered. The day before, they had read about the sun in the class. Its appearance was like lemon and it was hot. They had even written small stories, essays or poems also about it. It was like a flower that bloomed for just one hour.

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Section : II
When the class sang songs about happiness and life and games her lips barely moved. Only when they sang about the sun and the summer did her lips move as she watched the drenched windows. And then, of course, the biggest crime of all was that she had come here only five years ago from Earth, and she remembered the sun and the way the sun was and the sky was when she was four in Ohio.

Qstn #1
What was the impact of rain on Margot?
Ans : Margot was a very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years and the rain had washed out the blue from her eyes, the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair. She had an appearance of an old photograph dusted from an album and her voice was like a ghost.

Qstn #2
How did children tease Margot?
Ans : When she used to stare at the rain, William targeted her saying "What are you looking at?" and when she replied nothing, he asked her to speak forcibly. He gave her a rough push. The children isolated her from the group and did not look at her.

Qstn #3
Why did the children do so?
Ans : The children teased her just because she did not play any games with them in the echoing tunnels of the underground city. If they tagged her and ran away, she would not follow and stood there blinking after them. She hardly accompanied them when the class sang songs about happiness and life and games. She only sang when the children sing about the sun and the summer.

Qstn #4
What was her biggest crime?
Ans : The children did not mix up with Margot as she was a bit different from them. Her biggest crime was that she had come on their planet only five years ago from Earth, and she remembered the sun and the way the sun was and the sky was when she was only four in Ohio. And those children had been on Venus all their lives, and they had been only two years old when last the sun came out. They had long since forgotten the colour and heat of it but Margot remembered everything

Qstn #5
What is meant by "the loud wet world beyond the huge glass"?
Ans : The story is a Science fiction which is about the life on planet Venus where it had been raining constantly for the past seven years and the children who were born on that planet were only two years old when they had last seen the sunshine. They were confined in the thick glass windows from which they could hear the loud noise of rain and it was so wet outside that there were rubber and ash colored jungle of weeds, flowers and huge trees that covered the planet.

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Section : III
There was tall that her father and mother were taking her back to Earth next year; it seemed vital to her that they do so, though it would mean the loss of thousands of dollars to her family. And so, the children hated her for all these reasons of big and little consequence. They hated her pale snow face, her waiting silence, her thinness, and her possible future.

Qstn #1
What did Margot tell about the sun to the children and what was their reaction?
Ans : Once she had told the children that it was like a penny with her eyes closed as if she was telling or remembering some wonderful thing or event. But children refused to accept it. Then she said that it was like a fire in the stove and that also was not accepted by the children and they told her that she was lying. But she remembered very well and stood quietly apart from all of them.