Jealousy In 'All Summer In A Day'

Friends are there to you make you feel happy, even in your worse times. “Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness” (Euripides). In the short story, “All Summer in a Day” told by Ray Bradbury, a young girl named Margot gets tyrannized by her fellow classmates for remembering about the sun. But in the movie, “All Summer in a Day” retold by Eric Kaplan, Margot only gets tyrannized by William, and not so much by her classmates. While the short story has a theme focusing on jealousy, the movie focuses on sympathy. The movie makes the theme different because they made Margot more outgoing and the kids had sympathy for her.
In the beginning of the short story the author described Margot of being more of an outsider. As the author

explained, “Margot stood apart from them, from these children who could never remember a time when there wasn’t rain and rain and rain” (Bradbury 1). Mostly everything Margot had done was to herself in the short story, but not so much in the movie. Lamentably, Margot had no friends in the short story, making her seem an “alien” than she was in the movie. Overall in the short story Margot was less social, therefore in the movie she was a bit more outgoing.
At the end of the movie, the director caused the kids to have sympathy for what they have done to Margot. But in the short story the author stated, “They walked over to the closet door slowly and stood by it. Behind the closet door was only silence. They unlocked the door, even more slowly, and let Margot out” (Bradbury 7). They stood silent and didn’t do anything, but in the movie only the kids did something for her to feel better. The story showed the kids having no sympathy for Margot. Overall it is to show where the story had stopped and the movie changed up the theme by making the event to go on.
As you can see, the theme both in the movie and short story are different. Since the story left Margot to be lonely and the kids having no sympathy for her, but the movie differs, the theme does not match with neither of them. The story showed everyone that jealousy is a strong emotion that actions and words can come in and take place, without you knowing it. Therefore, the movie showed that flowers grows out of dark moments.