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All Summer In A Day Ray Bradbury Summary

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The short story all summer in a day by ray bradbury is about how people can’t control how jealous they are and it reveals the harm that jealousy can do to others. By them being jealous they lock her in the closet and because they did that she didn’t get to see the sun there was no point of them to do that because they were going to see the sun that day by them locking her in the closet that shows that they can’t control their jealousy and they harm margot emotionally. The short story is about how they were feeling really sad. It reveals that the kids in all summer in a day was super sad that they lock margot in the closet and margot didn’t see the sun. More evidence that the kids were jealous is the kids lied to the teacher when margot
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Last, when the kids kept Margot from having fun it shows jealousy. The first example of jealousy changing someone’s actions is where the kids locked Margot in a closet. This shows that the kids were jealous that Margot remembers the sun and they don’t. The kids’ jealousy keeps on controlling them by making them be mean to Margot. Jealousy shouldn’t control people’s actions.

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On the one hand, “All Summer in a Day” shows how adversity can be treated negatively, and how jealousy is a burden for yourself and your peers. An example of this is displayed when the students take out their anger on Margot, as she had seen the glorious sun many times while they haven’t even once. This is shown when the students say, “Hey, everyone, let’s put her in a closet before the teacher comes!” (“All Summer In A Day”, 3). This quote is in reference to when Margot is describing the sun to the students.

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Throughout the short story and the movie, “All Summer in a day” it demonstrated that no one is perfect and everyone is unique. It also showed that people need to respect the way others do things and not make fun. The students understood that there actions toward Margot were troublesome and they should have done something on that matter, the short story and the film’s theme of people not being perfect was clear. Therefore, humans beings are not perfect and they should stand up for other people, who are getting bullied or laughed at.

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The schoolmates saw the sun but they were young, while Margot used to see it every single day. She may have a genuine reason, but all William cares about is torturing her because of the fact she is the only one out of the entire school who remembers what the sun does, how it feels, and what it does. Both the schoolmates and Madame Loisel demonstrated jealousy throughout their everyday life and were affected drastically by

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In life we can all relate to the feeling of longing for something. In All Summer in a Day, Ray Bradbury’s characters’ lives are clouded with rain and the only see the sun once every seven years. Bradbury uses metaphors, emotions, and repetition to express the sun’s meaning of hope to the main character, Margot, and the children of rocket men and women on Venus. Metaphors and emotions are used to help the reader relate to the connection with the sun. He describes the sun and the rain using metaphors, and uses the children’s emotions to help further the idea.

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Ray Bradburyś short story All Summer in a Day is the story of a dystopian colony on the neighboring planet Venus. It follows the story of a class of nine year olds who haven't seen the sun for seven years. It tells how they act around a girl who came from earth when she was four. In the story readers learn that jealousy can lead people to do something they otherwise wouldn't do.

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When explaining that the sun is possibly coming out Bradbury tells us how Margot deeply feels about the sun, he shows us that Margot lives to see the sun or be in its presence. In the text they tell us “She remembered the sun and the way the sun was and the sky was when she was four in Ohio,” and give us insight on how she loved the sun. So when these kids take the sun away from her they don't really understand what it truly means to Margot, showing that these children did not paying attention to Margot properly to understand how bad of a decision it was to put her in a closet. Also Bradbury tells us that the classmates hate Margot because of her physically characteristics of everything there is about her, they judge the paleness of her face, her silence, her thinness and future. When the kids are doing this to Margot they don't take into consideration that she is born with that paleness and many traits she has.

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The children did that so Margot could not see the sun after five years. The children were jealous of her because she remembered the sun. The children were disrespectful to her because Margot always stared outside and only sang one song. She didn't speak when spoken

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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.

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The short story All Summer In A Day by Ray Bradbury is about jealousy and reveals the bad actions it can cause. Such as, some bad actions that occurred are them shoving her in a closet, denying her opinion, and in addition the students lied to their teacher. Other readers have claimed the theme of this short story is the power of desire, but the desire might have been driven by jealousy. In addition, Margot’s peers also kept her from seeing the sun and in the end this compelled them to feel guilty. To sum it up, the guilt they felt for their actions ruined the rare experience they had recently been exposed to.

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However, others may feel that a stronger theme may be how gloomy surroundings causes people to react badly and have poor behavior. In “All Summer in a Day,” Margot is teased because of

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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

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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

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She remembers the colors and the heat, and how it really was. The children thought they remembered the warmness and how like a cloud it was, but then they violently woke up to the tattering sounds of of the unsatisfying rain.   All the children made fun of and bullied poor Margot. But what they all thought she was a bit different.

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The theme of the story about bullying and jealousy. When someone new comes to a school who is different from others, children as a group together will tend to pick on, mistreat, beat up, bully that the new child. Then, when you have a child who has vivid ideas&memories of the things that the other children have not experienced like in this story “All Summer in a Day” reference to the sun, children will be jealous of what she has and they do not. I think in this story all Margot wanted is to share what she remembers of the sun, and for that, she is looked down on by William and the other children, being out right mean to her. So when the suns starts to appear, they lock Margot in the closet, as if to say we want it

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