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Jealousy In All Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury

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The short story, All Summer in a Day, by Ray Bradbury is all about jealousy and reveals that jealousy could shape people’s actions towards others. If being jealous means taking away someone's time in the sun, then the children were blinded by their jealousy. People may not even notice that they are jealous until they see someone hurt. Just because of their jealousy towards that person. Jealousy blinds people of their actions and leads them to do something just because they are jealous. This theme is the major theme in this story. The first example in All Summer in a Day is when the whole class didn't believe Margot when she claimed that she remembered the sun. She did remember what the sun looked like and her classmates were just jealous of that. Her classmates were getting really frustrated because Margot actually remembered what the sun looked like. Margot was isolated and not wanted because of the jealousy that her classmates were to her. She knows what the heat from the sun feels like on your skin. Her classmates except herself moved to Venus when they were just really young and doesn’t really remember what the sun is. Margot moved to Venus when she was five years old. She knows what the sun is like. Her classmates …show more content…

For example, bullying could be one. There is evidence of bullying throughout the story. In the beginning of All Summer in a Day, Margot finished her poem and read it out loud. The students ganged up on her and denied that her poem was the truth about the sun. The students also ganged up on her again and decided to lock her into a closet. They got to see the sun but they took away Margot’s chance to see the sun. While someone might argue that the major theme would be bullying, they forgot that in the text it says, the kids moved here when they were two, Margot on the other hand moved here when she was five, therefore she remembers what the sun was, the children were jealous because of

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