She senses that she’s different after she refuses to allow water to fall on her head once in the school shower rooms. They do not believe her descriptions of the sun and insist that she is a liar. The others had only ever known Venus, but she had not forgotten the beauty of the sun. She feels that the biggest difference between her and the others was that she had left Earth at the age of four, and remembers everything about the sun. When the class sings together, she wouldn’t sing, unless it was about the sun and the summer. She feels it’s her own doing because she doesn’t play with them and doesn’t participate in their games. There is an altercation between Margot and William, after which the children move further away from her. She’s thin, pale and looks like a person in a faded photograph.

Now that the rain begins abating, and all the children press themselves against the window. That was Margot’s poem, read in a quiet voice.” “ I think the sun is a flower, that blooms for just one hour. But when they wake up, all they see is rain, and the memory fades away.Įarlier, they had read about the sun and wrote essays and poems about it: Margot knew that some of them could v isualize the warmth, the color, or the heat of the sun while dreaming. The children could not remember anything but the rain, as they had all left the Earth when they were just two years old. We see the children through the eyes of Margot, who stands apart from them. The children exclaim that the rain is gradually coming to a halt, and we are now introduced to Margot. They had reached Venus as they were children of the astronauts from Earth who were looking for a new place to live. The children are on Venus, and the planet was covered in forests that keep growing back even as the rain crushed them. It had been raining incessantly for seven years, heavy rain that destroyed forests and caused tidal waves that engulfed islands. They crowd together, waiting for the sun to shine. They are excitedly talking among themselves about a prediction by the scientists. The children are getting ready for some event that is about to take place.

The story begins mid-conversation among a group of children in a classroom in planet Venus.

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