Jealousy In All Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury

In the short story All Summer in a Day Ray Bradbury shows readers that when jealousy gets the best of you, it causes you to overreact. In this story it shows how jealousy is the theme, gives evidence to support that jealousy is the theme, a counterclaim, more evidence, and lastly a conclusion.
In the middle of the story for example, when the students locked Margot in the closet, they were jealous. Another example of when the students were jealous is when Margot was reading the poem that was given to the class as an assignment, but Margot's was different. Hers was about how she remembered how the sun felt and looked liked 5 years ago when it last came out. While Margot was reading her poem, the students would non-stop interrupt her with comments

like ´No it's not, you're lying, you don't remember!’ When jealousy does get the best in you and you overreact, that causes a consequence of kids/students acting poorly towards others. At this point in the story, this is a good example of when the other children are jealous of Margot.
On the other hand, many others may think bullying is the theme of All Summer in a Day not jealousy. Many people think this because Margot gets bullied throughout the story. For example, she gets called names, gets made fun of and gets interrupted by other kids while shes talking. Overall when one kid is the one who starts the bullying, the rest of the kids join in maye thinking because it's cool or because one person is doing it they should do it too.
Though many may think something different, this story best shows jealousy because the other students are jealous of Margot. The others students are jealous of Margot because she remembers seeing the sun 5 years ago. ¨Hey everyone, let's put her in a closet before teacher comes back!¨ This is a point in the story, this is an example of the children being jealous because of Margot remembering what the sun looks like and feels like. To support that this is an example of more jealousy, at the end of the story when the sun has had its appearance and left again, the children remembered that Margot was still locked in the closet. ¨They looked at eachother then looked down.¨ This shows how jealousy got the best of the students and the students acted against it.
Overall, in the short story All Summer in a Day, Ray Bradbury shows readers how when jealousy gets the best of you, it will cause you to react towards other, and not always in a good way.