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Ray lives in a five-by-seven-foot cell with a bed, a toilet, and a sink. The food is terrible, the guards treat him like an animal, and all through the night the other men on death row scream and cry. Ray constantly worries that he might be executed, and he even contemplates killing himself, as many men do on the row.
5. Ray breaks his long-kept silence on the row when he hears another inmate, who we eventually learn is former Klansman Henry Hays, sobbing. What is it about the cries of another human being that move Ray to unexpectedly speak? When have you been moved to reach out and lessen the suffering of someone surprising? 6.
For his first three years there, Ray doesn’t speak to anyone—he is consumed by despair, loses his belief in God, and even contemplates committing suicide. He feels helpless and tries to cope by daydreaming about traveling to interesting places and meeting interesting people.
At age 5, Ray helplessly watched his younger brother, George, drown. The film insists that the guilt Ray felt for failing to rescue George is responsible for the dark side of his soul.
Ray continues to have faith that he will be able to prove his innocence, and shows his drive to persevere in the face of the system’s clear biases. The polygraph test illustrates plainly that Ray did not commit the murders, providing him with additional hope.
In honor of Ray’s lifelong love of Halloween, we thought of the spookiest number and put together 13 fun facts about Ray, which will give you a deeper understanding of what motivated this charismatic, eccentric and intensely playful man.
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‘All Summer in a Day’ is a 1954 short story by Ray Bradbury (1920-2012). The story is set on Venus, where the sun only comes out once every seven years for a couple of hours; the rest of the time, the sun is hidden behind clouds and rains fall constantly.
