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Jealousy In All Summer In A Day

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Everyone experiences jealousy at some point in their life, and it usually ends up hurting them because they want to know the feeling so badly. In the short story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury and in the song “Mr. Brightside” by The Killers, they both show how jealousy can hurt you and in some cases, someone else. In “All Summer in a Day” all the kids are waiting to see the sun for the first time on the planet Venus where the sun comes every seven years. All the kids are from Venus, except for Margot, who lived on Earth until she was four, and she remembers what the sun looks like. This makes the kids jealous because they want to know what the sun looks like so badly and to know someone else already knows makes them even more jealous of her since she got to see it and they didn’t. In the song “Mr .Brightside” by The Killers, the guy goes on a date with …show more content…

This hurts him because he wanted it to work out but he finds out that she’s interested in another man. In “All Summer in a Day” and “Mr. Brightside”, we learn that jealousy is a reason why you may hurt inside or how you may hurt someone else.
In both “All Summer in a Day” and “Mr. Brightside”, the person or people in the story that are in the story are both hurt. They feel pain from the jealousy they have for another person. In “All Summer in a Day”, they locked Margot in the closet because they were afraid the sun wouldn’t come out and they were jealous that she still may be the only one to know what the sun looks like. At first, they thought this was

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