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 ! "
She would always describe to the other kids even though she knows they won’t believe her. She would describe the Sun as a penny, a stove on fire, and even, “The sun is a flower, that blooms for just one hour”(Bradbury,p.g2). She shouldn’t have kept on talking about the Sun because it makes the other children feel envious. This is so significant, because Margot knows that what she says about the Sun is mortifying to the other children because they don’t remember how the Sun looks like.
They don’t realize that because of what they did, Margot wouldn’t be able to see the sun. Later on in the story, after they played in the sun, they
In the beginning, the classmates refer to her poem of not her writing it. Margot’s classmates refuse to believe that she wrote ”I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour” (Bradbury) After will criticizers
"All Summer in a Day" "I think the sun is flower, that blooms for just one hour"(page 3), Ray Bradbary tell us in his short story. Bradbary expresses in this story his thought about how Margot was put into peer pressure by all her classmates. He also explains how Margot is put into peer pressure when she reads her poemand the other kids tell her that she could not be her the one who wrote it. Margot is a lonely antisocial girl for the reason that she gets bullied by a boy who has lived in Venus more time than her. Therofore that introduces the secondary character of the story (William), a boy that is jelaous of her because she remmembers how the sun looks like and because she comes from
Then William has the idea to "put her in a closet before the teacher comes!” and all of the kids “surged about her” and “caught her up and bore her,” and carried her to the closet “where they slammed and locked the door” Here all of the other children were actively bullying Margot, first by lying to her about the sun coming out that day, and then by them all seizing her and putting her in a closet for the one hour in 7 years that the sun comes out. After all of this clearly, the other kids were being influenced by William from the beginning.
Imagine living in a world where a blanket of darkness and storm envelope the land as far as you can see for seven years straight. Now imagine that in that world, you are the only one that remembers light and sunshine. This is how the main character of All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury lives. She also lives with an abundance of envy and hate targeted toward her from the other children. A major theme from her story is that jealousy can lead to denial, thoughtless and cruel actions, and harsh guilt and shame.
This shows Margot's classmates were bullying her due to jealousy because they put her in a closet just so she could not see the sun, something she had been looking forward to doing. Also, her classmates were laughing at her because she said that the sun was going to come out that day and no one believed her, so that also led to her being put into the closet. In the text, it states, “‘You’re lying, you don’t remember!’ cried the children” (2). This proves Margot’s classmates were jealous of her and bullied her for it because they were saying mean things to her, such as she was lying. Also, they were bullying her because they did not believe she had seen the sun before due to her not being able to remember what it looked like.
The students also ganged up on her again and decided to lock her into a closet. They got to see the sun but they took away Margot’s chance to see the sun. While someone might argue that the major theme would be bullying, they forgot that in the text it says, the kids moved here when they were two, Margot on the other hand moved here when she was five, therefore she remembers what the sun was, the children were jealous because of
Ray Bradbury's short story “All Summer in a Day” is a story about how a girl moves to Venus and misses the sun. It rains 24/7 and the sun only comes out every 7 years. Margot is the only person in the class who has seen the sun. Because the children are jealous, they lock her in a closet so she did not get to see the sun. A theme that the story suggests is that special things won't be so special if you have them all the time.
Maybe they were jealous because she knew something they didn’t know so she remembers something the other children cannot. She was locked in a closet while the others enjoyed the sun but, they began to realize that they were wrong so they began to feel guilty. One lesson the dystopian
This illustrates that because Margot has not been on Venus as long as the rest of them, they all are envious of her causing these bad actions to happen. In fact the students also were not accepting of her poem and they did not like the fact that she had opportunities on Earth.
However, some may say that her classmate’s actions were driven by jealousy. But in the end, the story puts more focus on Margot not fitting in and not being accepted. The first and biggest way that Margot was different was in her experiences. None of Margot’s classmates had ever seen the sun, but Margot
And this was because she would play no games with them in the echoing tunnels of the underground city”(Bradbury, 3). Margot stands alone and doesn’t try to talk or hang out with the other children. Her need to belong is very harsh. The other kids are jealous of her, because when she was a kid she saw the sun, and she wants all the others to believe that she actually did see it.
On the day of the coming sun she is forcefully put into a closet by the other kids, leaving her in the dark space swelling up with tears throwing herself in the closet. Furthermore, Margot was clearly waiting for an opportunity that doesn’t come around so often and ultimately never had the chance to see it through, leaving her in a distraught
