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Friday, December 4, 2009

"All Summer in a Day" Response

The darkness washes over you, making it all the more frustrating, and the yearning growing stronger. You start crying, and the world is crying with you, crying for seven years, but you hope, with every ounce of strength you have, that one day, everything will be right again. Until that day comes you will not forget what you want, what you need like water, so when it happens, your dream can come true. Obsession can get you to a point at which you feel complete, yet more times then not, it will backfire, leaving you with less than nothing.
Margot clearly has an obsession with the sun, and she, and her classmates all know it. Obsessions are usually unhealthy, take this short story as an example. Margot never stops thinking about the sun. She adores it so much that the rain, and even just water makes her feel the strongest of hatred. Obsession causes you to go in a place of extreme unbalance, where only one thing rules your life, like the sun for Margot. It makes you lose sight in things you care for and love, because your heart is filled with the thing you fixate on.
If Margot did not obsess over the sun, she would have got to see it after the 3 years of darkness, because of this, she got locked in a closet and missed the only thing she cared about, thus causing her insanity and maybe even death. Some people believe that everything they want will become theirs if they just try hard enough and not give up, but there is a fine line between a goal to accomplish and a sick fixation.
One of the best ways to go into a dark place where no one can free you is to obsess over something. Life can be thrown into disarray too many times to count, like it did to Margot, and because of that the story did not have a happy ending. It is simply unbalance, and that is something we could all do without.

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