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Jealousy In All Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury

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Some people waste their time on jealousy and that can hurt more than one person in a group. In “All Summer In A Day” by Ray Bradbury, the main character is a quiet, intelligent, pale child named Margot. Margot learns that people are bullying her for seeing some things they did not get to experience and getting jealous. This loud,rude and negative kid named William learns that jealousy got the best of him and hurts him and Margot. In the beginning of “All Summer In A Day” the children are jealous because Margot has seen the sun and they have not. You hear that Margot moved from Earth to Venus when she was four. In the story it tells us that Venus has had rain everyday besides one day,every seven years. Margot says that she remembers the sun was “like a penny”. William says "you're lying, you don't remember!”. When her classmates were asked to write a small story about the sun she said “I think the sun is a flower that blooms for just one hour”. …show more content…

Margot is just thinking she is minding her own business but she actually is causing jealousy to others. For example, Margot keeps mentioning her experience with the sun in front of the other children. When the other children can only remember rain and rain and rain. I think we can all see how the children are feeling and how their actions hurt Margot, but Margot is hurting them.
Margot always sits waiting for the sun and does not play with the children during recess. Bradbury shows that Margot does not engage with kids when it says “If they tagged her and ran, she stood blinking after them and did not follow”. The kids are trying to distract them from what is so different from Margot but she is not trying anything but to be different. Margot also needs to get to know these kids so she should try interacting.vMargot keeps talking about the sun the other kids have never seen.vSo Margot is partly to blame for the jealousy

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