All Summer In A Day Analysis

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Bullying can change someone's life from happy to sad, IF we stop bullying less people will be sad.In the passage “all summer in a day” and the picture “pointing fingers” they both have a theme of bullying is not good.In life you may not like someone, and that is ok. What’s not ok is being mean to someone because you don’t like them. In the passage “all summer in a day” the theme bullying is not ok is presented."Aw, you didn't write that!" protested one of the boys.”I did," said Margot, "I did."This relates back to the theme bullying is not ok because when one of the boys didn't believe her she felt upset.“He gave her a shove. But she did not move; rather she let herself be moved only by him and nothing else.”This is

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