Ray Bradbury's 'All Summer In A Day'

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All Summer In A Day Essay
In the short story “All Summer in a Day” the author Ray Bradbury writes about life on Venus where it rains for two hours every seven years. A girl named Margot lived on earth and moved to Venus when she was four, so unlike the other kids who haven't seen the sun since they were two, she remembers and misses the sun. In the story, the kids become jealous of Margot because she keeps talking about the sun and isolates herself from them because she remembers it. The kids become angry and jealous because she remembers the sun and won’t talk or play with them that they shove her in a closet. They keep her there until the sun has passed and felt extremely guilty for depriving her of the two hours of sun. A theme the author illustrates in the story is jealousy is dangerous to everyone. Scene 3 and 5 show this idea of jealousy. …show more content…

This shows the danger of jealousy by making the kids do something they would most likely not do. The sentence “Hey everyone, let’s put her in a closet before the teacher comes.” shows one jealous kid using mob mentality to make the other kids jealous. Also, in the sentence “They surged about her, caught her up and bore her, protesting, and then pleading, and then crying, back into a tunnel, a room, a closet, where they slammed the door.” shows how jealousy, mixed with a mob mentality, swept over the kids making them shove a vulnerable Margot into a closet. Scene 5 is a good example of how jealousy can make you out of control which is dangerous to you and everyone

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