In Ray Bradbury’s short story All Summer in a Day, readers are taught about the presence of jealousy and how it can reveal the change in a person’s judgment. Though it all takes place in Venus where people live in an underground city and have not seen the sun in years ,but just rain. Then there is Margot who is a little more different then the others as she has a more vivid memory of the sun as she has been there the shortest amount of time. Which causes some jealousy with her peers as they wish they could remember the warmth of the sun on their skin and the color, like Margot did, as it sat like a golden coin in the sky on Earth everyday. Now short story shows the way jealousy can affect a person, as the kids wrongfully acted on their jealousy leaving Margot a victim. …show more content…
As her peers won’t even accept her vision of the sun and the truth she speaks about it. The children's non acceptance of Margot shows their true jealousy as they have lived their for many years with Margot but just have not learned to accept her and her thoughts as they are so jealous. Margot’s fellow classmates will not even believe that she wrote a simple poem about the sun's presence. This goes even further on how her fellow students are jealous of her picture of the sun as they can't recall the last time they have seen it. As a result her peers are just jealous that she has a memory of the sun as they can't even recall the color as they deny her