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'''Be Warned. As an [[Ending Trope]], there will be spoilers.'''
'''Be Warned. As an [[Ending Trope]], there will be spoilers.'''
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== Anime and Manga ==
== Anime and Manga ==
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** Likewise, deep enough under ground the expedition meets natives who have only heard that if you go high enough eventually there are no more ceilings, "just a horrid emptiness called Sky"
** Likewise, deep enough under ground the expedition meets natives who have only heard that if you go high enough eventually there are no more ceilings, "just a horrid emptiness called Sky"
* In ''[[The Giver]]'', Jonas receives the memory of the sun from the Receiver.
* In ''[[The Giver]]'', Jonas receives the memory of the sun from the Receiver.
* Invoked by [[Plato]]'s famous "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave#Release_from_the_cave Allegory of the Cave]," which uses the likely negative reaction of the lifelong cave dweller to being forcibly taken out of the cave and into the sun as a metaphor for the resistance to the truth.
* Invoked by [[Plato]]'s famous "[[wikipedia:Allegory of the Cave#Release from the cave|Allegory of the Cave]]," which uses the likely negative reaction of the lifelong cave dweller to being forcibly taken out of the cave and into the sun as a metaphor for the resistance to the truth.
* Most of the characters in [[Ray Bradbury]]'s classic short story "All Summer in A Day." They 're children who live on a perpetually wet, cloudy Venus (before [[Science Marches On|it was realized that the planet was inhospitable to life]]) where the sun only comes out for one hour every seven years.
* Most of the characters in [[Ray Bradbury]]'s classic short story "All Summer in A Day." They 're children who live on a perpetually wet, cloudy Venus (before [[Science Marches On|it was realized that the planet was inhospitable to life]]) where the sun only comes out for one hour every seven years.
* In [[Arthur C Clarke]]'s ''The City and the Stars'', it's implied that the sun is somewhat filtered from [[City in A Bottle|the city]], therefore only outside, where only Alvin goes, can it truly be seen.
* In [[Arthur C Clarke]]'s ''The City and the Stars'', it's implied that the sun is somewhat filtered from [[City in A Bottle|the city]], therefore only outside, where only Alvin goes, can it truly be seen.
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[[Category:First Time in the Sun]]
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