Jealousy In Ray Bradbury's All Summer In A Day

In the short story “All Summer in a Day,” author Ray Bradbury uses the feelings of jealousy and regret to portray the theme, once harmful actions take place, they cannot be taken back. At this point in the story, most of the children don’t want to stay in Venus and want to go back to earth so they could see the sun. One of their classmates, a girl named Margot, was born on earth and lived in Ohio until she was two years old. On Venus, it rains everyday for seven years until the sun comes out only for an hour, and then it starts raining again. Margot has trouble getting along with her classmates in school because she got to see the sun everyday when she lived on earth. The author uses this piece of the story to show how Margot’s classmates feel

. .’ ‘All a joke!’ said the boy, and seized her roughly. ‘Hey, everyone, let's put her in a closet before the teacher comes!’ (Bradbury)” This narration in this section of the story emphasizes the feeling of jealousy piling up between Margot’s classmates because they want to move back to earth to get a chance to see the sun just like Margot did. They could go outside and play with their friends instead of being stuck indoors for everyday and hear the rain pouring down. Since Margot got the chance to actually see the sun unlike her other classmates, they become jealous and start to resent her. The reader could see the theme of jealousy because the classmates’ jealousy leads them to poor actions because they thought she was wrong about her prediction on when the sun was coming. The phrase, “they knew her differences and kept away” stands out in this quotation because it shows how her classmates feel about Margot because of her differences like her being born on earth and seeing the sun. Ray Bradbury may have chosen this word choice to further develop the way her classmates are backing away and staying away from her because she was different from the rest of the