This is only one of the hurtful things that the classmates said and did to Margot. At this point in the story the children are nasty to Margot. Paragraph 2: The children are jealous of Margot. “ ‘Aw you didn’t write that’ protested one of the boys’... ‘I did’ said Margot.
In the book Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt and the short story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, people who take things too far can turn a crowd into a mob. Ray Bradbury develops this by the classmates hurting Margot and shoving her in a closet. On the other hand, Lynda Mullaly Hunt develops this by showing how Ally breaks down after she can’t take being bullied anymore. The short story “Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury there’s a character named Margot who usually feels alone because she never wants to play with the other kids in her school on Venus.
In “All Summer in a Day,” the children are thriving to see the sun, they would even be happy to just remember what the sun looks and feels like against their snowflake white skin. Margot, on the other hand does remember the sun and often talks about the bright light bulb that lights their planet once every seven years, to the others. However, there is a turning point when the children become jealous and treat Margot differently because to them she is set apart from them. " Hey, everyone, let’s put her in a closet before the teacher comes ! "
Don’t judge people based on how they look or what they do. Ray Bradbury and Jane Yolen convey this theme in their texts, All Summer in a Day and Tough Alice through explicit examples in the craft of their writing. What the authors did similar was have a author's craft of setting in which they expressed their story by expanding on the setting of the story. Don’t judge people based on how they look or what they do. Ray Bradbury the author of All Summer in a Day embedded the theme in the text to show or portray.
In Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day,” the students join in on some naughty behaviors. Those students show how mob mentality can cause people to do terrible things. At the beginning of the story a boy says, “Hey everybody, let’s put her in a closet before teacher comes!” All of the students shove Margot into the closet.
Additionally, one of Margot’s classmates says, “‘Let's put her in a closet, before the teacher comes!”’ (2). Bradbury explains, “They surged about her, caught her up ad bore her, protesting, and then pleading, and then crying, back into a tunnel, a room, a closet, where they slammed and locked the door” (2). While she is locked up, the sun comes out for the
In Ray Bradbury’s All Summer In A Day Margot, a clear theme emerges as Margot is treated with isolation, prejudice and cruelty. The female protagonist has lived in a world of darkness and rain since her arrival on Venus nearly five years ago. Her peers treat her cruelly with disrespect and Margot is made isolated from her surroundings. Early on in the story, we find out that the sun only comes out once every seven years.
Being responsible is key to having a healthy lifestyle. In this book club, the members have to be responsible. People who I consider responsible are people who are on time, take good care of their things, and don't waste people's time. This trait of responsibility is needed for people to be their personal best in life. In “All Summer in a Day,” William bullies Margo because of how she remembers the sun and more.
All Book in a Movie How can we develop space travel to live planets away from Earth and not be able to teach the proper treatment of a fellow human? Ray Bradbury 's short story “All Summer in a Day” plays off that idea; however, the book is very different from the movie, especially the teacher. Both the book and the movie take place on a foreign planet where it rains all the time except once every few years. Also both take place in a underground school, but that 's where the similarities end.
William was jealous (unhappy and angry) because someone in particularly Margot saw something special, he wanted to see. Margot and her family were the only human beings on their planet that saw the sun, which the sun was really special to William, so, William got jealous that he didn’t get to see the sun and Margot did. “Nothing’s happening today. Is it?” , This quotes goes with William being jealous because he acts like he knows everything, which he doesn’t.
Margot knows what it is like to have the sun shining down on her skin, she knows what it is like to feel the warm embrace of the sky. For the first time in seven years the sun is going to come out and everybody is extremely anxious and excited. The other kids are jealous of Margot and her experiences, which leads to the other kids taking jealous actions upon Margot. There are many examples of jealousy in All Summer in A Day, and each of them prove to be pivotal events in the story.
After the class had been reading about the sun for a week, Margot shares her poem, a memory of the sun; “I think the sun is a flower, the blooms for just one hour.” Though, the class instantly waved it as being false, and not even her own work. With this, it shows that they refused to see her point of view in loving the sun, and Margot understandably wanting to see it again. This shows irony later in the story when they are staring out the window still, anticipating the sun’s short arrival. Again in the story, Ray describes the other students in a wild demeanor; “- they turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all tumbling spokes.”
but then the theme changed during the end of the movie, "All Summer in A Day" shows kindness when William let out Margot out of the closet and Margot didn't get upset she was respectful and kept her words all to herself. This all started when, "They unlocked the door, even more slowly, and let Margot out." (Bradbury 7) Margot came out slowly and calmly, but was silent. Which is surprising because she just missed the sun
“Margot stood apart from them, from these children who could never remember a time when there wasn’t rain and rain and rain.” This is what Margot is like, because Margot doesn’t have friends, and Margot wants to accepted. Not only does she have little defense or power, she also can’t socialize into the group. Margot is lonely and this is not the way to fix her problems. One reason she isn’t accepted is because she can’t socialize herself into the school group.
To continue, in the short story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, the young loving child Margot identifies as a lonely girl who wants to belong to a caring civilization where everyone cares for each other. Margot is a quiet little girl that wants to be appreciated the way she is and not recognized for her differences. Throughout the short story she seems to discover many bullies in her class. The author states “They edged away from her, they would not look at her. She felt them go away.
