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After being released from captivity, Margot will be addressing the other kids about the negative effects of bullying and jealousy. She became a victim of bullying, hatred and jealousy and lost the opportunity to see the sun after four years. She will be telling the kids how it feels to become a victim of bullying, hatred and jealousy. Because, she came to Venus in an older age, she was different from them and knew more about the sun and its goodness that doesn’t mean that the other kids should bully her and have hatred for her. The golden opportunity to see the Sun after four years was taken away from her, just because she was not getting along with them. There was nothing could have been done to rewind the moment that she was locked in the
tunnel. Hence, feeling guilty after something has already been done would do no good to the victim, so before having hatred, jealousy or bullying someone think about its effects and circumstances on the victim. As human beings we are born free and have the right to live a life of our own choice.
In the story it says, “About how it was like a lemon, it was, and how hot . . . I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.” This connects back to my idea that outcasts are sometimes the solution to society’s problems. Due to this quote, Margot’s statement about the sun is what makes her an outsider in the eyes of society. Later in the passage, it is revealed that Margot’s statement about the sun was correct and solved the problem of what the children think the sun resembles.
Margot goes to school with classmates that resent her. They hate her for having seen the sun, something they wanted so badly. This jealousy led to an overwhelming hatred that they were reminded of any time they saw her. Her classmates let their hatred take over and they locked her in a closet as revenge for the pain she had caused them all. But unlike Wendy and Peter from The Veldt, Margot was affected negatively from her classmateś actions.
One possible main idea is that this short story is about how actions lead to regret. Support for this theme comes at the end of the story, where the children are described as stakes driven into the ground. This regret came after the children denied Margot the ability to be out in the sun after it had finally come out. Another theme is that the allure of rare things or events can induce powerful emotions. Support for this is present during the end of the story, where the kids run around in the sun and experience joy like never before. A final argument for the theme can be made of the idea that people never realize how much things are worth until they are gone. Evidence for this theme takes form in the shape of a depressed Margot, who is always sad and moping in the story, something that the author says is because she misses the sun on Earth. Although all of these themes have some support, none of have enough evidence and backing to be the true
Margot had no expression at all of what she had missed sept for tears falling down her sad cold face. I could see how upset Will was when he saw how upset Margot was. I was sad and had no clue what to do about this. If only I knew what had actually happened to her.
All the kids her were rude and bullied her about remembering the sun.“ I think the sun is a flower; That blooms for just one hour:”( page 2 para 1). Margot says this the day before the sun come out. Of course the kids were still mean to her about it.“There was talk that her father and mother were taking her back to Earth next year; it seemed vital that they do so, though it would mean the loss of thousands of dollars to her family.”( page 3 para3). In this text it shows that Margot is jealous of the people on Earth and how much she wants to go back. She doesn't care that her family would lose thousands of dollars she just wants to be on earth where she belongs
The psychoanalytic perspective (Erikson’s psychosocial stages), Sigmund Freud Ego or psychological defense mechanism, and behaviorism and social learning theory, are important to understanding adolescent bullying. In the psychoanalytic approach, development is discontinuous and as such occurs in stages where “people move through a series of stages in which they confront conflicts between biological drives and social expectations, and how these conflicts are resolved depends on the person’s ability to learn, to cope with others and cope with stress” (Berk 2010, p.15). According to Sigmund Freud from this theory, individuals use a mechanism called psychological defense mechanisms which when they feel an overpowering anxiety, the ego employs to protect themselves against unwanted, scary feelings or weaknesses within their psyche or consciousness. The use of these defense mechanisms can be useful sometimes and also hurtful at other times to us and others, which emanates as aggressive behavior e.g. bullying [2]. Erikson’s psychosocial stages of development are important for understanding bully behavior. According to Erikson, a “basic psychological conflict which is resolved along a scale from positive to negative determines a healthy or maladaptive outcomes of each stage” [Berk 2010, p.16], in other words as the child grows and goes through each of the psychosocial stages, he or she negotiates new cognitive and emotional experiences which enables him or her to pass through the stage with either a positive or negative outcome. The effects and results of a negative outcome from the stages can be used to describe aggressive behavior such as bullying [Berk 2010, p.16]. According to the behaviorism and learning theory, they believed that b...
Margot had previously lived on Earth, so she was used to seeing and experiencing the sun for the majority of the day. The children of Venus, however, were used to it appearing for two hours every seven years, so they could not relate to her experience and, where in turn, jealous of her. William, a classmate of Margot's, was the story's antagonist, and was the student who prompted the children to lock Margot in a closet. The children wouldn't have locked Margot in the closet at that very special moment when the sun came out if it had not been for William, because, ". . the biggest crime of all was that she had come here only five years ago from Earth, and she remembered the sun and the way the sun was and the sky was when she was four in Ohio.
I had never really paid attention to the way I looked. It did not really bother me, to be honest, and I had never had problems with bullies either. That was until I got into grade 10. I was not fat and I was not that skinny either, I was classifies as average. Healthy. But, you see, the new look of society was super skinny. If you were not that size, you were not sociably acceptable. This did not bother me at first because I liked the way I was and I also had a couple of friends who also felt the same way. We did not really care if we were popular or not, we only cared about the way we felt about ourselves and how comfortable we were in our own skin. Well that’s what I thought. A couple of days went by and my friends started to crave the attention that the other skinny girls were getting. Those girls had an infinite quantity of friends and almost everybody wanted to be their friends. My friends quickly started to wear more make-up, go on extreme diets and putting their skirts higher. They then abandoned me and went with the other girls. At the beginning, it was not that bad being alo...
When William said to his classmates to lock her in a closet, that showed how he did not care about her because he knew that it was easy to bother her. "Hey, everyone, let’s put her in a closet before the teacher comes!" (Bradbury 5) William said to put her in the closet with excitement, because William was only jealous oh her. The classmates thought that it was only going to be a joke and get her out quickly, but William did it on purpose. Margot may be telling the truth and she may not be telling the truth, I get why William would get frustrated, but if the girl wants to believe that she saw the sun then let her believe that, do not tell her mean stuff, Margot should not of listen to what they told
The rivalry game has a special place in each of our lives because we have not earned the lunch pail all season, and we are starving for our lunch, making anaerobic practices seem worth the hard work. A coal miner woke up to the frigid temperature of Pennsylvania winter, he had a runny nose filled with moist residue, and a large contusion on his upper right thigh from the previous day's work. He drowned the soot out of his rustic lunch pail, in a sink with only cold water, activating the miner’s taste buds and salivating in anticipation. The miner placed his hearty lunch delicately into the sturdy pieces of sheet metal, knowing his reward was protected by countless hours of sacrifice. He strapped on his winter damaged, smudge covered, boots, grabbed his lunch pail, and carried out the promise he made to himself and his family, he will never forget his pail. Three years ago, my mind and vision dazed with yellow and black spots signaling
kids start picking on her and shoving her and then grab her and lock her in a closet. In the end the Sun for the first time in seven years comes out while Margot is still in the closet. After that the kids come back inside they let Margot out of the closet. This story shows that Margot is the most unlucky kid on Venus.
Soon, Margot writes a poem about the sun and the students lock Margot in a closet and tell her that the Sun is not coming out and it was all a joke. In the end the Sun does come out and the students forget about Margot and play outside until the Sun goes away and they realize they left Margot in the closet, so they go to the closet and let her out.This story shows that Margot struggles with living on Venus.
Everyone has been bullied or encountered someone being bullied at some point of their life. Whether it would be physically or verbally both can be exceedingly traumatizing and can have a long-term psychological influence on children’s development. Majority people may define bullying in a more physical term; nevertheless that’s not always the case. The act of bullying can occur in several ways and in reality affect the individual in the same way. Bullying is generally defined as repeated, negative, and harmful actions focused at target throughout a course of time, exhibiting a sense of power difference between the bully and the victim (Olweus, 1993; Limber & Mihalic, 1999 as cited from Douglas J. Boyle, 2005). A survey was conducted in the United States estimating that over six million children, about 30% in grade six through ten have experienced frequent bullying in a school environment (Nansel, 2001 as cited from Douglas J. Boyle, 2005). Many people might debate that bullying is something that every child goes through and is simply a part of growing up, although there are several damaging consequences that happens to the child’s brain. Bullying causes the child to feel upset, isolated, frightened, anxious, and depressed. They feel like they reason they are being picked on is because there is something wrong with them and may even lose their confidence feel unsafe going to school (Frenette, 2013 as cited from Douglas J. Boyle, 2005) Anthropologically, sociologically, or psychologically, bullying can be analyzed through different perspectives and several questions can be asked based on the topic:
It was very clear to see how the class treated Margot. Margot trying to tell her classmates that she ones saw the sun, but then it ended them not believing her. “They hated her pale snow face, her waiting silence, her thinness, and her possible future.” (Ray Bradbury pg#3). “But she remembered and stood quietly apart from all of them and watched the patterning windows.” Even though the
It only takes one bad experience to change your opinion on something. Imagine if you went through this same bad experience for months, or better yet years. Your whole personality, how you view yourself, and others changes drastically. This is what it feels like to be bullied. Bullying is a serious issue in America, especially among children and young adults. From kindergarten all the way up until my sophomore year of high school, I was a victim of bullying. Being bullied changed how I viewed myself and others, what my values and morals were, and it shaped me into the person I am today.