Ray Douglas Bradbury(1920-2012) was one of the most celebrated American fiction writers of the twentieth century.He wrote science fiction,fantasy,horror and mysterious stories.His most famous stories are Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles ,The Illustrated Man and it Came from Outer Space. Many of his works have been adapted into comic books , television shows and films.
This text is an expert from a science fiction which gives us an imaginary account of life on the planet Venus .It touchingly narrates the keen expectations of the children of Venus who egerly wait for the sun to appear after seven years ,but for an hour.The deviation of the text from what we know as scientific fact only adds to the imaginative element of the tale.
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It had been raining for seven years . thousand upon thousands of days filled from one end to the other with rain. The days were filled with the gush of water and endless showers .Heavy strome caused tidal waves to come over the island .A thousand forests crushed under the rain, had grown up a thousand times to be crushed again .This was the way of life forever on planet Venus .Here was ocated the school room of the children belonging to men and women who came by rockets from Earth .They set up a civilization in this raining world.
"Ready?"
"Ready.?"
"Now?"
"Soon."
"Will it happen today , will it ?"
"Look,look,see for yourself."
The children in schoolroom chattered and pressed to each other like so many roses.They peered out of the window to look at the hidden sun.
It rained.
"It's stopping , it's stopping "
The children were nine years old.When the sun came out last time seven years ago they were too young.
They could not recall the sun when They could not recall the sun when it came out for just an hour and showed its face the stunned world.
All day yesterday they had read in class about the sun.They learned how like a lemon it was and how hot.They had written small stories , essays or poems about it.
"I think the sun is a flower
That blooms for just one hour."
That was yesterday.Today,at this moment ,the rain was slackening.The children gathered at the great thick windows.
"Where's our teacher?"
"She'll be back"
"She must hurry or she'll miss it."
The rainslackened stil more.
The children were eager to see the sun .They had been on Venus all their lives.They had been only two years old when the sun last came out .They had long since forgetten the colour and the heat of how it really was. They played in the echoing tunnels of the under ground city sang kf summer and the sun .
The rain stopped.
It was as if a hurricane had lost its sound .Here were no mototions or tremor but peace.The world grounded to a stand still .The silence was so immense one would feel as if the ears had been staffed.The children put their hands to their ears .They stood apears .The door slid back .The smell of the silent,watching world came to them.
the sun came out
It was the colour of flaming bronze and it was very large .The sky around it was blazzing blue.The jungle burnedbwith sunlight .The children, released from their spell,rushed out, yelling ,into the summertime.