Have you ever been changed by an event that you did not understand at first? In the passage "All Summer in a Day," by Ray Bradbury, the main character, Margot, is being misunderstood by her classmates on Venus, because Margot remembers the sun on earth, but her classmates do not. Because of this, the children locked Margot in a closet so she missed seeing the sun that appeared once in seven years. After seeing the sun for the first time, the children felt ashamed of what they had done to Margot. The story starts off showing us how Margot was misunderstood by the children before they saw the sun, then it progresses to show us that the children's good qualities are seemingly washed away by the rain that has been pouring for seven years, and finally, the children's commendable qualities are returned after being in the sun. …show more content…
First, we will see how Margot's was misunderstood by her classmates.
Margot was accused by one of her classmates for plagiarizing a poem, about the sun, that she had written. Margot's poem was a vivid recollection of the sun looking "like a penny" (Bradbury, 2), and "like a fire" (Bradbury, 2) "in the stove." (Bradbury, 2). The children thought she was "lying, you don't remember" (Bradbury, 2). "But she remembered and stood quietly apart from all of them" (Bradbury, 2). Margot was "different, and they knew her difference and kept away" (Bradbury, 2) and Margot "would play no games with them in the echoing tunnels of the underground city" (Bradbury, 2). As a result, the children "hated her pale snow face, her waiting silence, her thinness, and her possible future" (Bradbury,
2). Secondly, the children's good qualities are seemingly washed away by the rain that has been pouring for seven years. Because of this the children are quick-tempered and spiteful toward Margot. The children cruelly locked Margot "in a closet before the teacher comes" (Bradbury, 3), but they did not realize that Margot would miss seeing the sun that appeared once in seven years. "They stood looking at the door and saw it tremble from her beating and throwing herself against it" (Bradbury, 3). "Then, smiling, they turned and went out and back down the tunnel" (Bradbury, 3). Finally, the children's good qualities returned after playing in the sun. Once the children returned to school, "Then one of them gave a little cry. "Margot!" "What?" "She's still in the closet where we locked her"(Bradbury, 4). Only then did they remember that they had locked poor Margot in the closet, and they were sorrowful that they had been mean to her. When the children heard of this, "They stood as if someone had driven them, like so many stakes, into the floor" (Bradbury, 4). They then slowly walked over to the closet door and stood in front of it, and behind the door was only silence. They then unlocked the door even slower, and let Margot out. In conclusion, Margot was misunderstood by the other classmates, and was treated cruelly by them, but than after they went into the sun, they got their commendable qualities back. They were regretful that they locked Margot in the closet just to be mean. The children learned to be kind and not be spiteful and mean.
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.
What idea does the author develop regarding how an important event can change your perspective? In the short story, “The First Day” by Edward P. Jones is about a little girl view on the people during her first day. Her mother prepare her gave her an unusually breakfast and clothes for her new school Seaton Elementary all the way down New Jersey Avenue. At the school Walker-Jones, a key event happens to her. She learns of an essential fact of her mother pervious past of her life and on how she acts. The daughter sees that the mother does not seem to like the teacher of her daughter new classroom. A significant event can changes how you use to see people from your old understanding into another completely different understanding of how you view them before.
Wendell Berry’s “A Jonquil for Mary Penn” is set on a farm in a small, tight-knit community near the beginning of the twentieth century. The story opens in pre-dawn’s swarthy darkness on a cold March morning. Mary Penn wakes to find herself sick for the first time since she married Elton a year and a half previously at age seventeen. Mary attempts to hide how she feels from her husband as he eats before he heads out to help plow his neighbor’s corn ground. Mary finds herself spending the day engulfed in uncharacteristic self-pity and reflecting on her life. She reflects on how her upper-class family did not accept her marriage to Elton and rejected Mary for as good as dead. She compares
The characterization that Ray Bradbury gave Margot was shy. She was shy because she never talked in school. For example, in the story it said ‘’well don’t wait around here.’cried the boy savagely “you won’t see nothing” her lips moved. “nothing” he cried. When the boy talked to her she didn’t say anything because she was too shy. The only thing she was confident about, is talking about the sun. She knows for sure that it is going to come, even when everyone else doesn’t think so. Margot is also very unlucky. She has been waiting a long time to be able to see the sun again, but unfortunately she was stuck in a closet and didn’t get to see the sun.
The short story All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury is about bad judgement and illustrates the effect it can have on one's actions. All Summer in a Day is about the story of a girl named Margot and life on Venus. The story takes place on Venus the day before the Sun will finally come out, and this day proves especially challenging for Margot. The Sun only comes out once every seven years, and this leads to Margot suffering at the hands of her fellow classmates. Throughout the story, there are times when Margot is shoved, insulted and abandoned by the school children of Venus and these points prove how bad judgement prevails over other themes to be the main idea.
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It’s always cold and raining, and the sun only comes out for two hours on one day every seven years. Margot is a schoolgirl who moved from planet Earth. She’s depressed because she misses the sun and the other children don’t seem to like her. On the day the sun comes out, the other children lock Margot in a closet so that she can’t see the sun.
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