Imagine existing in a world with an endless loop of rain and rain and rain. In the short story, “All Summer in a Day,” by Ray Bradbury, a story of a nine year old girl, Margot, is described. She lives on the planet of Venus where there is nothing but rain. Margot remembers how the sun feels and looks. However, her classmates do not. As a result, they are jealous of Margot, causing her to be isolated, depressed, and harassed. To begin, Margot is being excluded. This is shown in the quote, “They edged away from her, they would not look at her. [Margot]” (Bradbury, 1954) The indicated quote shows how Margot’s classmates ignore her and turn away from her. The ignorance is a result of their jealousy. Margot’s peers are so envious that they would ignore her and …show more content…
One quote from the story showing Margot’s classmates harassing her is, “They surged about her, caught her up and bore, protesting, and then pleading, and then crying, back into a tunnel, a closet, where they slammed and locked the door and saw it tremble from her beating and throwing herself against it. They heard her muffled cries. Then, smiling, they turned and went out and back down the tunnel, just as the teacher arrived.” This quote illustrates how Margot’s peers push her, using force, into the closet. The quote also demonstrates how ironically happy and satisfied her classmates become. They are portrayed as “smiling” while they shut Margot in a closet. She ends up not being able to see the sun, all because of her green-eyed classmates. They harass her because she knows things they don’t. One more excerpt is, “ ‘Get away!’ The boy gave her another push. ‘What’re you waiting for?’ ” This little boy, only nine years old, shoves Margot merely for the reason that Margot remembers the sun, how warm it feels and how it looks. Her classmates have seen the sun before, but they don’t remember. And as a result, they are jealous of Margot, and so they bully
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.
Sammy was obviously near the bottom of the class ladder, a place where he was extremely unhappy. His dead-end job at the grocery store, where lower class citizens are the prime patrons, was not a place he felt he belonged. He wanted to be a member of the family where the "father and the other men were standing around in ice-cream coats and bow ties and the women were in sandals picking up herring snacks on toothpicks off a big glass plate and they were all holding drinks the color of water with olives and sprigs of mint in them" (Updike 1028). Sammy realizes that Queenie comes from this sort of background, a very different one from his. When Queenie is being harassed by Lengel, Sammy sees that "she remembers her place, a place from which the crowd that runs the A & P must look pretty crummy" (Updike 1028). Queenie’s family was in the class that he envied, that he admired, that he wanted to become a part of.
Scout always listening to the knowledge of her teachers when she was younger makes her innocent and naive. First, Scout’s constant obedience to her teachers and lack of retaliation for her beliefs express her naiveness: “Now tell your father not to teach you anymore. It’s best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I’ll take over from here and try to undo the damage...Your father does not know how to teach. You can have a seat now” (Lee 23). This quote expresses how Scout was belittled by her teacher for reading outside of school. This aggravates Scout, however she holds in her anger, like any child, and she is forced to sit down at the command of her teacher, Miss Caroline. Also, Scout couldn’t defend herself when she explained to
Different types of prejudice are evident in this chapter. For instance, Scout refers to Walter as a “Cunningham”, and this automatically places him in the poor class (Lee 20). Miss Caroline displays prejudice towards Scout because she can read. Scout is singled out after she reads to the class, and Miss Caroline accuses her of her father teaching her how to read (Lee 17). It seems as though more serious types and instances of prejudice will develop as the story progresses.
The story commences during the summer in Maycomb County, Alabama, in a children's world. Scout is a young girl around the age of ten and her older brother Jem is about thirteen. Their summer days consist of playing make believe, fictional games from dawn until dusk with their friend, Dill, from Montgomery, Alabama. In the child's world, the twilight sky represents the rising sun, the dawn of a new day, and the commencement of a full day of children's games and activities. The child's world that exists during the daytime is a world flourishing with innocence and simplicity. However, the daytime is the only time when the child's world exists, for when the sun falls, curfews draw Scout, Jem, and Dill back to their homes for the evening. When daylight fades and the moon begins to rise, the games subside and the make believe, fictional world ceases to exist until following morning. The twilight sky portrayed on the cover represents a rising sun, and thus, the inconsequential child's world.
Imagine what it would have been like to be cooped up in an attic during the Holocaust,with only very little space eight people in one little attic. For the Franks and the Van Danns it was eight people and a cat for most the time. With no one to talk to they have to keep everything in, unless they write it. In “The Diary of Anne Frank” the two families live this way. Anne and Peter were two of the characters who experienced this. Anne is a teenage girl who has a sister and lives during the Holocaust. Anne also had a lot of friends so she was popular; she loved to read and write in her journal. She was very loud and obnoxious. In Act one Scene two ,Peter says “I was always by myself, while you were in a big crowd of people.” This shows that Anne was very popular and is used to people; while Peter was not used to as much attention and people. Then in Act one Scene three, Mr.Van Dann says, “ Why can’t you be more like your sister Margot?” This proves that the Van Danns like Margot more than they like Anne ; it also proves they think Anne is obnoxious.
A lack of practicing empathy can negatively impact relationships and society. In the short story, “All Summer in a Day”, by Ray Bradbury, portrays a little girl that is in a society where empathy is less important to encourage younger generations to have. Bradbury states in the 5th paragraph of the story, “‘Aw, you didn’t write that!’ protested one of the boys. ‘I did,’ said Margot. ‘I did.”’ In this quote, the little girl, Margot, just shared a poem with the class and her classmate, William, decided to basically call her a liar and say that she didn’t come up with the poem by herself. As all of this is happening, the rest of class sits there listening and not depending Margot as she gets bullied. The lack of empathy is shown here, because out of the whole class, someone most likely has been bullied before and understands the feeling Margot must be having, but yet no one stands up for her.
In certain parts of the novel Wonder by RJ Palacio, the readers better understand August’s transition to life at school through the parts of the book narrated by Summer and Jack. During Summer’s narration, the readers can perceive how she feels ashamed by the actions of her classmates when they call August a freak without even getting to know him; “[i]f they knew him, they wouldn't call him that” (Palacio 119). The readers must have other perspectives, not just August’s, to demonstrate the constant ridicule, judgement, and cruelty that goes around behind his back. Few students at Beecher see August as a normal kid who only differs in looks, while the majority of the children think of August as a freak, not worthy of their respect. While pondering
Margot and her classmates live on Venus. The Sun only comes out once every seven years, but the children are nine. Margot moved to Venus when she was four. The other children envy her because she remembers the sun, unlike them. On the day the Sun comes out, the other children lock Margot in a closet. “They could not meet each other’s glances. . .they unlocked the door, even more slowly.” They realized they were out of line and took their jealousy too far.
The other kids are jealous Margot remembers what the sun is like and they don't so they say she is wrong. The kids are making Margot upset. When all the kids came inside after it started raining again “Their faces were solemn and pale. They looked at their hands and feet, their faces down.” The kids finally realised that Margot was right. They are guilty because Margot was locked in the closet while they were outside having
In this novel, the theme is jealousy comes easily. During the story the main character Margot is reading a poem she made about the sun. She is the only one of the students who remembers what it is like to be in the sun. "Aw, you didn't write that!" protested one of the boys. "I did," said Margot, "I did." "William!" said the teacher. The theme is jealousy because, William seems jealous that Margot had written the poem about the sun better than he can science he doesn't remember what the sun is like and Margot does. At one point in the story Margot is explaining what the sun was like. "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. This passage also shows jealousy. This shows jealousy because the kids don't think that is is possible that Margot remembered what the sun was like. The kids want to remember to. They are jealous that Marot remembers what the sun is like instead of them. In this part of the text Margot is again talking about the sun. This time the students can't take it. "Well, don't wait around here!"
The author sets a descriptive scene that shows how Scout was cast out by Miss Caroline: “ I suppose she choose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me anymore, it would interfere with my reading. ‘Your father does not know how to teach. You can have a seat now” (Lee 22). Scouts teacher casting her out is similar to my tough roadblock would fade away. The encounter with Miss Caroline only made Scout more confident teacher not wanting to hear my voice because in her mind it was not worth her
The students are bullying Margot because she is different. In the short story, “All Summer in a Day”, Ray Bradbury shows Margot is not the same as the other students. “ 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 in Ohio. And they they had been on Venus all their lives, and hey had been only two years old when last the sun came out and had long since forgotten the color and heat of it
...e realizes that those experiences are what shaped her into the young women she is now. All those years of convincing herself that her appearance is the reason why people tend to hate her and push her away, suddenly come crashing down on her when she realizes that looks are merely part of what makes her unique. Also the high expectations that society places on women makes it hard for a young girl to grow on her own, especially if she has a mindset of her own. However, Anne uses that for her own benefit by creating barriers into opportunities. Lastly, Anne Shirley does not only make herself proud with the identity created by working hard day and night, but also to make all the people in her life proud as well. “Aren’t you proud of that Anne-girl? I am” (Montgomery 329)