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The theme in all Summer in a day is, treat others the way you want to be treated. All summer in a day is about nine year old kids who live on a planet called Venus. These kids don’t remember seeing the Sun but, One of the nine year olds named Margot was born on Earth and does remember how the sun looks like. She would apprise the other children that the Sun is like a penny or, a fire in a stove. No one believed her. She would get tortured by other kids. On the day that the Sun was supposed expose itself from the clouds, the kids locked up Margot in a closet. When the Sun did come out, all the kids were so pumped and forgot about Margot. When the sun had disappeared over the clouds, the kids then realized that they had left her in the closet. …show more content…

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. The lesson that Margot got is to not continue doing things that will make other people annoyed or angry because they will do the same back. The theme of “All Summer in a Day” is treat others the way you want to be treated. The children never respected Margot’s statements, so she didn’t talk or hang out with the other children. Furthermore, Margot also didn’t give respect to the other children. She wouldn't play or socialize with them. This might have made the kids upset so they started being mean to her. The overall lesson of all summer in a day is treat other people the way you want to be treated. In other words, if you are nice to someone, they will be nice back. If you are mean to someone, then they will be mean back. So if you want to be treated with respect, then you got to give respect to

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