![]() ![]() Led by a boy named William, they bully and antagonize her, and just before the sun comes out, William rallies the other children, and they lock her in a closet down a tunnel.Īs the sun is about to appear, their teacher arrives to take the class outside to enjoy their hour of sunshine and, in their astonishment and joy, they all forget about Margot. The other children, being too young ever to have seen it themselves, do not believe her. She describes the Sun as "penny", or "like fire in the stove". "I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour." When the teacher asks them to write a poem about the sun, hers is: One of the children, Margot, moved to Venus from Earth five years earlier, and she is the only one who remembers sunshine, since the sun shines regularly on Earth. The story is about a class of students on Venus, which, in this story, is a world of constant rainstorms, where the Sun is only visible for one hour every seven years. ![]()
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