All Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury

Imagine living in a world where it rained everyday and the sun hadn’t been seen in 7 years, but one girl who had moved from Earth remembered the sun. Would you be jealous? Even if you were it wouldn’t escalate right? Well, I wouldn’t be too sure. All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury, many people live on Venus and the sun has not been seen in seven years. Margot, a nine year old girl, had moved to Venus from Earth 5 years ago and she remembers and misses the sun. She is the only student in her class who has ever been on Earth. She loves to talk about the moon and how she remembered it but the other students did not enjoy hearing her talk about it. These students bullied her constantly out of their jealousy of what she had previously seen. One day the sun was predicted to come out and Margot was excited for this. Some of the boys in her class who had teased her, locked her in the closet and left her there while the sun come out for the first time in 7 years. Bradbury is trying to tell us that thoughts of jealousy can
This is shown in the text where it says, “‘Get away !’ The boy gave her another push. ‘What’re you waiting for?’” This clearly shows the transition from words to actions. The boys, without thinking, pushed her when they were talking to her. However this is the second time seen in the text that the boys push her and they use action later on in the story. A little shove isn’t thought to mean much but what they did next was awful. “They surged about her, caught her up and bore her, protesting, and then pleading, and then crying, back into a tunnel, a room, closet, where they slammed and locked the door. They stood looking at the door and saw it tremble from her beating and throwing herself against it. They heard her muffling cries. Then, smiling, the turned and went out and back down the tunnel, just as the teacher arrived.” The boys even enjoyed putting her in the closet, this show how far jealousy can