All Summer In A Day

Ray Bradbury is an American sci-fi writer who was born in 1920. He has written many famous and intriguing books and stories during his lifetime. One of his short stories is “All Summer in a Day” in which there is a civilization of rocketmen set on Venus. Underground the jungleland with extreme weather there is a school which Margot attends. She is a frail 9-year old girl who is much different than the other children. Margot had came to Venus only 5 years ago while the other kids had lived there their whole lives. Margot was born and raised on Earth meaning she had memories of seeing the sun. All the other kids wished for the experience to see the sun. Since the sun only came out once every seven years for about two hours, the children were
She was simply reading her beautiful poem about what the sun in her soft voice voice. Since it was about the sun, the kids couldn’t help but protest. One boy yelled, “Aw, you didn’t write that!”(Bradbury, 1954). This is a scene in which it is shown that the children are jealous of Margot. They don’t want to believe anything that Margot says at all. What else could that be except for jealousy? Protesting a simple poem and denying that her original writing was fake. They are jealous of her, her experiences about the sun, and everything she does which is why they protest the poem. This response of the children clearly proves they are jealous of her and are ignorant, not knowing how to treat someone different. This jealousy builds up and is later exploited when the children harass
In this scene the children make an unreasonable action and harass Margot, locking her into a closet. This is presented when the author writes, “...They slammed and locked the door. They stood looking at the door and saw it tremble from her beating and throwing herself against it.”(Bradbury, 1954). Margot was just talking about how scientists had predicted that the sun was going to come out today. The jealousy of the children allowed them to harass Margot brutally. They just picked her up, threw her into a closet, locked it, and left. The author even uses personification to show how much Margot was resisting stating that “the door trembled”. This is crucial because as it shows how the jealousy lead the kids to ignorantly do something extreme. Not only that, but the sun did actually come out that day. The second they locked her in the closet the sun had appeared and the kids forgot. They enjoyed their couple of hours in the blazing, beautiful sun and took this incredibly rare experience away from her because of their jealousy and