All Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury

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Did you know that 350 million people around the world are diagnosed with depression and anxiety? That is about 6.9% of the population. The main character in our story also suffers from this mental illness. The short story, "All Summer in a Day," by Ray Bradbury, is about a group of children who live underground on the planet Venus with their families. They are nine years old and are eagerly awaiting a momentous occasion. After several years of continuous rain, the scientists on Venus have predicted that the sun will come out for a brief period. The children have only seen the sun once in their lives, but they were so young that they don't remember how it looks or feels. Margot is a girl who lived on Earth and can recall what the sun looked …show more content…

Bradbury wrote, “When the class sang songs about happiness and life her lips barely moved.” (Bradbury, 1954). This shows that Margot doesn’t participate in class activities. In this scene, when Margot’s classmates are singing, she refuses to. Later, when they sang songs about the sun, she happily did what she was told to do. In addition, this proves that she is grieving the absence of the sun. The memories of the sun satisfied her, so she sang about it. No one wants to be around her when they realize that she doesn’t participate in class and is silent during the joyous songs. She also acts gloomily and makes people feel sorrowful for her, so that might explain the seclusion from other children. This is important because it shows how isolation can affect a person. Because she is distressed, she acts differently from everyone else. She is secluded from the others and is not influenced by them. Margot also feels as if there is no point to participate because her life is already crumbling. Although the children offered to play with her, she refused to. Her mental illness caused her to isolate herself. The children resented her for experiencing more than they had, so they harassed …show more content…

The children envied Margot’s uniqueness and experiences, which lead them to torment her. The author wrote, “‘All a joke!’ said the boy, and seized her roughly. ‘Hey everyone, let’s put her in a closet before the teacher comes!” (Bradbury 1954). In this scene, William, the boy, proposed to the class that they should lock Margot in a closet. The children only did this because they envied her. They were jealous because Margot could recall memories of the sun. Margot was convinced that the sun would come out and tried to make her classmates understand. Although they knew this, they still made Margot feel mistaken. When the sun came out, Margot was still confined in the closet. She was there until the sun went away and it started pouring again. Later, the children were guilty of their actions. This is significant because the jealousy of the children caused them to hurt Margot even more. People don’t think straight when they are jealous. After the rain started again Margot’s classmates regretted their

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