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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 about actions of anger can be caused by jealousy. They don’t believe her when tells about her memories of the sun on earth and when she begins to sing about the sun. They don’t believe her when she tells something about the sun. There are many other ideas such as it was the the power of desire. But they it’s not the case it’s jealousy. Another reason it’s jealousy is due to the fact that they experience sorrow for her. The short story All Summer in a Day is really about how the power of jealousy which leads to anger. The other kids know very well that it's a rare innocent if Margo manages to respond or participate in class. It states how she sings in music class unless about the sun which angers kids very much knowing she has memory of back on earth where the sun almost always shined. Another example they state is when they write poems of what the sun looks like. When she begins to speak about it and give it a beautiful description the disagree with her because out of jealousy. …show more content…

The first reason why it’s out of jealousy is because they the have extreme sorrow for her after knowing she missed a once in seven year occurrence. If it was out desire they would still be wanting something else, desire is something that can’t ever be full it is always hungry for more. After the matter they most likely won’t talk to her after the incident because it was not a trust relationship due to the fact that they don’t know her very well and she well probably will be angry at them for a long

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