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Maggie Perkins Mr. Baker & Ms. Riordan ELA 551 21 March 2024 Comparative Literary Essay William Penn once said, “The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.” This means jealous people can be mean to people just like how they were in the stories, “All Summer in a Day'' and “The Necklace” both show similar themes, but the way the author arrived at the theme is different in each story. In the short story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, the main character, Margot gets bullied by her classmates because they are jealous that she has seen the sun. The sun is a big deal in this story because it takes place on the planet Venus in the future. It always rains on Venus except the one day every seven years when the rain stops …show more content…

The life lesson learned in the short story is to never take away other people's opportunities in life just because you are jealous. The author of “All Summer in a Day” writes “All a joke!’ said the boy, and seized her roughly. ‘Hey, everyone, let’s put her in a closet before the teacher comes!’” (Bradbury 3). 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. In the text “All Summer in a Day” the author included a main topic of jealousy. Throughout “The Necklace” a topic that is shown continuously is

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