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Jealousy And Greed In All Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury

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In the dystopian story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, a group of young children living on Venus have never seen the sun, the endless rain and storms only give them one hour every seven years, and in all but one child’s memories have faded of the sun. The one other child was Margot, she came from Earth five years ago at the age of 4, she remembered the beauty we call the sun. The other children become greedy and jealous after years of Margot telling in small chunks about how she misses the sun and wishes for it to come back. The pure hatred for Margot from the other children makes them blind and rash enough to cause agonizing harm to Margot by shoving her in a closet while they enjoy the sun for the first time in their memorable life. The theme of jealousy and greed shines through the text as the children become …show more content…

One such of these is about Margot’s poem that she wrote the day before the rare solar event, which states, “I think the sun is a flower, that blooms for just one hour” in response to this, on of the boys within the classroom yells out on how Margot did not write this and she was faking it. The way that this connects to the theme is on the basis that because of the previous hatred for Margot and knowing that she is able to remember the sun makes him angry and mad at how he never got to experience the sun. The dictionary definition of “Jealous” is “Feeling or showing envy of someone or their achievements and advantages”, in this case, Margot has the advantage of the sun and her memories. The hatred and greed they have for her is strong enough for they to hurt Margot. After they finish having their one hour of pure joy they realize what they did to Margot, the pain she feels and felt, they finally see the truth and how much Margot is feeling and the only way for her to keep stable is to give herself constant reminders of the sun through speech and

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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.

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In All Summer in a Day, Ray Bradbury uses vivid description, similes, and symbolism to show the desire to see something you’ve never seen before. The story is about a girl named Margot who comes from Earth, where she saw the sun all the time. Then she moves to planet Venus where the sun comes out every seven years. She tells her school classmates about how she remembers the sun and they start to bully her because they are jealous. The author uses a lot of description, symbolism, and similes to show the desire of the kids to see the sun.

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