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Compare And Contrast All Summer In A Day And Zero Hour

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Everyone knows what it is like to have something you are so desirous to have that you act unreasonably. There many time where characters will do this without even realizing this. In both short stories, All Summer in a Day, and Zero Hour, inexperienced children react to their thirst something they don’t yet have. While they both react they still have very different ways of reacting. In All Summer in a Day the young ones are transformed into callous bullies who treat Margot unfairly. On the other hand in Zero Hour the tiny tots lose sight of the importance of parents, really any one over the age of 10 and decide to team up with other children. In each of these short stories by Ray Bradbury the kids make a mistake and are taking in by the temptations
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