All Summer In A Day Essay

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How would you feel if something you cherish got forcefully taken away? Human beings need basic needs like food, water, and sunlight but also need things to love and adore. What if all of that got taken away? Perspective can influence your choices of how you perceive that information, it depends on what you have experienced in the past, and the results will depend on your actions and what you do. In Ray Bradbury’s short story “All Summer in a Day”, he uses past experiences, jealousy, and fear to suggest that perspective can influence an individual Unquestionably, past experiences Influence an Individual’s actions. Good past experiences will have a positive effect on an Individual, and bad past experiences will obviously have a negative effect on an Individual. For example, In Ray Bradbury’s short story, “All Summer In a Day”, He clarifies that Margot is a timid little girl who is losing hope. Her desire is to see the sun and go back to earth with her family. Margot is influenced by her past experience of the sun. …show more content…

Margot has experienced other people's jealousy directed toward her. Especially from the main antagonist William. William and his gang never like Margot because of her past experiences with the sun. “They hated her pale snow face, her waiting silence, her thinness, and her possible future.” This describes how Margot is an outcast just because the kids were envious of her opportunities. She is a wilting flower waiting for sunlight. “They surged about her, caught her up and bore her, protesting, and then pleading, and then crying, back into a tunnel, a room, a closet, where they slammed and locked the door.” Margot is severely bullied by her hostile classmates who gang up on her and lock her inside the classroom closet, Moments before the sun makes a rare