Do not judge a book by its cover. This line is not only for books but it is for people because you do not really know what or who something is in the inside and what they really are. In the short story, “All Summer in a Day” written by Ray Bradbury, on the planet Venus it has not stopped raining for seven years. This young girl name Margot had believed the sun was going to come out. The school children were being rude and disrespectful towards Margot’s beliefs. Throughout the story the school children are still constantly being awful to sweet Margot. Beauty deserves to be treasured by everyone is the theme of the short story because people deserve to be respected for what they believe and not criticized on looks.
People should be respected for what they believe. Margot reads her poem about the sun to the class. In her poem, she reads what she thinks the sun is like and when it comes out, how long it will be. After Margot read her poem William states, “Aw, you didn’t write that!” (Bradbury 2) William did not believe Margot had wrote the nice poem she had presented to the class. Margot was not respected on her presentation and did not get the support on her beliefs from the other kids. Margot does not only get the respect on what she
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The school kids did not like Margot for a lot of reasons. It may be because she can go back to earth, how she talks about the sun to much, or how she looks. In the short story it says, “They hated her pale snow face, her waiting silence, her thinness, and her possible future.” (Bradbury 3) The kids did not like her face or her body shape but, might of not known how she really is inside since she rarely talks while the kids do not try to be friends with her. Margot’s classmates do not see the real beauty inside her because all they are looking at is her looks on the outside. Judging people how they look can be hurtful to people not only on the outside but on the
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.
Everyday people are judged based on their appearance. We need to learn to look beyond a person’s physical image. In the young adult fiction piece If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson, the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, and the realistic fiction novel The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls, the authors illustrate how individuals face prejudice based on their appearance, race, gender, and social class.
There are many examples of the kids acting with bad judgement towards Margot, subsequently alienating her. The first time this shows up is when one of the boys shoves Margot not once but twice because she didn't immediately respond to him. Another example is when all of the Venus school
Margot wrote the best poem and they also hated her for that. People might think that those
While someone might argue that the theme is jealousy they forget that in the text is says that Margot was sad when the class bullied her. When the kids locked Margot in the closet,
People are always complaining about how they aren’t as pretty as models on billboards, or how they aren’t as thin as that other girl. Why do we do this to ourselves? It’s benefitting absolutely nobody and it just makes us feel bad about ourselves. The answer is because society has engraved in our minds that we need to be someone we’re not in order to look beautiful. Throughout time, society has shaped our attitudes about appearances, making it perfectly normal and even encouraged, to be five feet ten inches and 95 pounds. People have felt trapped by this ideal. Society has made these beauty standards unattainable, therefore making it self defeating. This is evident in A Doll’s House, where the main character, Nora, feels trapped by Torvald and society’s standard of beauty. The ideal appearance that is prevalent in society is also apparent in the novel, The Samurai’s Garden, where Sachi is embarrassed of the condition of her skin due to leprosy and the stigmas associated with the disease. The burden of having to live up to society’s standard of beauty can affect one psychologically and emotionally, as portrayed in A Doll’s House and The Samurai’s Garden.
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.
First, Connie and her mother focused on outward beauty rather than inward beauty, which can never be tarnished. Connie’s mother was jealous of her daughter’s beauty, because she knew she could no longer attain the beauty that she once possessed. She often scolded her daughter for admiring her own beauty in order to make herself feel more secure inside. Connie did not try in the least bit to make her mother’s struggle any easier, but instead gawked at her own beauty directly in front of her mother, and often compared her own beauty to others.
It is still bullying. “They edged away from her, they would not look at her. She felt them go away.” In this part of the story, William (One of if not the biggest bully taking place in the story), had asked Margot what she was looking at, and she didn’t respond because she was clearly spaced out. He then asked her again with a stern tone but still, no response.
Her mother wasn’t comforting like a mother should be. Her mother was her first bully, which is heart breaking enough. The person who brought you into this world doesn’t think you’re good enough and is constantly critical. The reason why Margot doesn’t value herself and her body is because her mother sold her off and took away her innocence. Nicole Dennis-Benn writes “the joy and innocence in her daughter only infuriated her.
But she did not move; rather she let herself be moved only by him and nothing else.” Bradbury also writes, ‘Oh, but,’ Margot whispered, her eyes helpless. ‘But this is the day, the scientists predict, they say, they know, the sun…’ ‘All a joke!’ said the boy, and seized her roughly. ‘Hey, everyone, let’s put her in a closet before the teacher comes!’"
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.
Margot stirred up this anger and rage inside her classmates by standing out. What she thought was isolation from them, was isolation from herself. Margot definitely played some part in creating the barrier between her and her classmates. For starters, she moved to Venus when she was four years old and saw the sun daily, whereas everyone else was born in Venus and last saw the sun when they were two years old. Readers can see this on page one of Bradbury’s short story, “Margot stood apart from them, from these children who could ever remember a time when there wasn’t rain and rain and rain”.
The story starts off with these children bullying Margot out of jealousy of how she was able to remember and picture the sun, and because she was quiet and continued to allow it to happen. For instance, “when the class sang songs about happiness and life and games her lips barely moved. Only when they sang about the sun and the summer did her lips move as she watched the drenched windows.” It’s clear how this quote shows that her memory of the sun was
...e ability to achieve anything in life. Hopefully, readers would learn from this novel that beauty is not the most important aspect in life. Society today emphasizes the beauty of one's outer facade. The external appearance of a person is the first thing that is noticed. People should look for a person's inner beauty and love the person for the beauty inside. Beauty, a powerful aspect of life, can draw attention but at the same time it can hide things that one does not want disclosed. Beauty can be used in a variety of ways to affect one's status in culture, politics, and society. Beauty most certainly should not be used to excuse punishment for bad deeds. Beauty is associated with goodness, but that it is not always the case. This story describes how the external attractiveness of a person can influence people's behavior and can corrupt their inner beauty.