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You could write an essay about what Ray Bradbury is saying about mob mentality in "All Summer and a Day".

"All Summer in a Day" shows Margot, the quiet, invisible outcast of the class, being singled out by the rest of her classmates, after telling everyone the sun would come out. The sun never comes out on Venus, making this an extraordinary deal. The deal was too much for the class, and the students display a term called "mob mentality." Mob mentality is, unfortunately, very common within society. Human beings don't like dramatic changes in their environment, especially when it is out of the ordinary. When someone comes along and says a seemingly-insane statement, they overreact and force that person out of society. "'It's like a penny,' she said once, eyes closed. 'No it's not!' the children cried. 'It's like a fire,' she said, 'in the stove.' 'You're lying, you don't remember!' cried the children." The class refuses to believe such an idea. It's too much to handle, therefore, they resort to just ignoring the statement altogether, excluding Margot. A large group is required to do this, because one individual couldn't simply block out another, which is why the children felt so confident doing it, not truly realizing what they were doing to her. Feeling overpowered, they weren't expecting the sun to actually come out. After they remembered Margot was in the closet, "they stood as if someone had driven them, like so many stakes, into the foor. They looked at each other and looked away.... their faces were solemn and pale. They looked at their hands and feet, their faces down." Mob mentality will result in guilt, because the group never considers the possibility of the event actually happening. That guilt is exactly what the children felt towards Margot. In general, Bradbury is saying to the reader that before you get in a group and go against a single person, listen to what they have to say and consider it. History has had many figures like this, and if it