Jealousy In Ray Bradbury's 'All Summer In A Day'

Cameron Murzyn September 18, 2015 Honors Contemporary Literature Ms. Dube

8th Period Room 307

In “All Summer in a Day”, Ray Bradbury uses action and dialogue to show the theme of the importance of having compassion, and how it is affected when jealousy comes into play. The author describes how the Margot’s classmates mistreat her and alienate her, which shows that a person's moral compass is influenced when they have feelings of jealously, and when they act upon that feeling.

The author uses action to show the influence of jealousy on a person when the children in Margot's class were jealous of Margot, so they decided that they should lock her in a closet during the time that the sun was out. 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

The author uses action to show the influence of jealousy on a person when the children in Margot's class were jealous of Margot, so they decided that they should lock her in a closet during the time that the sun was out, which was a very special time for her. The author also uses dialogue to express her classmates feelings toward Margot, such as when a fellow classmate William shouts "Aw, you didn’t write that!", in the middle of Margot's poem. All in all, Margot's alienation and mistreatment shows that a person moral compass can shift when feelings of envy and jealousy are