Write a essay on (all summer in one day) here’s the story  [1] "Ready?"
[2] "Now?"
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[4] "Do the scientists really know? Will it happen today, will it?"
51-Look. look: see for vourself!
6 The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds,
intermixed, deering Out for a look at the hidden sun
[7] It rained.
8 It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days
compounded- and filled from one pnd to the other with rain. with the drum and
Bus or water, with me Sweets o snowers an concussion or storms
so heavy the were tidal waves come over the islands. 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.
IlIts stopping, it S Stopping!"
MOl Yes. ves!
11 Margot stood apart from them, from these children who could never
remember a time when there wasn't rain and rain and rain. They were all nine
vears old, and it there had been a dav, seven years apo, when the sun came out for an hour and showed its face to the stunned world. thev could not recall
Sometimes, at night, she heard them stir, in remembrance, and she knew they
were dreaming and remembering gold or a yellow crayon or a coin large enough
to buv the world with. She knew thev thoupht thev remembered a warmness. like
a blushing in the face, in the body, in the arms and legs and trembling hands. But
always awoke to the tatting rum, the endless
shaking down of clear
bead necklaces upon the
roof, the walk, the gardens, the forests, and their dreams
were bu
1121 All dav vesterday thev had read in class about the sun. About how like a
< and how hot. And thev had written small stories or essays or poems about it, B I think the sun is a flower
That blooms for just one hour.
14 That was Margot's poem, read in a quiet voice in the sull classroom while th
rain
was alling outside
15) "Aw, you didn't write that!" protested one of the boys
(16) "I did," said Margot, "I did."
117) "William™ said the teacher
18 But that was yesterday. Now the rain was slackening, and the children were
crusned in the great thick windows
1201 "She'll be back."
(21) "She'd better hurry; we'll miss it!'
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