Jealousy In All Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury

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In the short story All Summer in a Day Ray Bradbury shows readers that when jealousy gets the best of you, it causes you to overreact. In this story it shows how jealousy is the theme, gives evidence to support that jealousy is the theme, a counterclaim, more evidence, and lastly a conclusion. In the middle of the story for example, when the students locked Margot in the closet, they were jealous. Another example of when the students were jealous is when Margot was reading the poem that was given to the class as an assignment, but Margot's was different. Hers was about how she remembered how the sun felt and looked liked 5 years ago when it last came out. While Margot was reading her poem, the students would non-stop interrupt her with comments

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