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Jealousy And Guilt In Ray Bradbury's All Summer In A Day

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Jealousy and Guilt and All Summer in a Day

Everyone has, at some point in their life, experienced jealousy and guilt, but how we express them controls many things and even our lives. It is like having a birthday, it happens to no matter what. It can demonstrate our emotions and actions with displeasure, guilt, and resentment. It can reveal many things about the characters throughout the story. Everyone has experienced jealousy, guilt, and pain at some point in their life. When you do, you can make terrible decisions that will follow you for the rest of your life. It can also change your life and your own life story. In most cases, it can make your life a living hell. Ray Bradbury's story, "All Summer in a Day” is an incredible piece of writing. …show more content…

The only difference with everyone is, that it can show and present itself differently. It also comes at different times and it might affect someone greater than another. The theme statement of the story, “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury is that jealousy can make you blind and selfish to others. At the beginning of the story, the actions and things that Margot experiences, her point of view, affect how the kids are jealous and selfish of Margot, as the story progressed, revealing actions, points of view, and dialogue affected how the other kids treated Margot, and at the end of the story, the tone and dialogue affect how the kids now feel towards Margot which is guilt. These three topics in the story, “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury prove why one of the main themes of this amazing piece of writing is that jealousy can make you blind and selfish toward others. In the story, the other kids were jealous of Margot seeing the sun, and because of this, it made the kids become mean, cruel, and selfish toward Margot. They only realize how mean they were and that what they did was wrong, at the end of the story. Ultimately, Ray Bradbury shows the readers why they should reflect on their actions in their own lives. Which will help the readers not let their jealousy turn them blind and selfish to other people. For all people, good or bad, this will shape their lives

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