Jealousy In All Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury

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In the story All Summer in a Day, Ray Bradbury shows that jealousy can blind your judgment and make you do awful things. All of the kids in the class dislike Margot because she was old enough to remember the Sun. Margot was on Earth and was four and everyone on Venus was born on Venus and saw the sun only once when they were two. Some say there is only one theme of this story and that theme is bullying. The evidence to support this is that the kids in Margot’s class treat her bad and are mean to her. There are other themes in this book, but jealousy is a big one. There is a lot of evidence in this story to back up jealousy as a possible theme. Ray Bradbury teaches readers that jealousy can make you do very bad things to other people.

The students in this story treat Margot mean because she remembers the sun and they don’t and only do this because they are jealous. The kids isolate Margot so she has no friends. They did this out of jealousy and sense Margot has no friends this implies that everyone is jealous of …show more content…

The kids are mean to Margot and hate her because she is different from the rest and she is weird. Margot remembers the Sun and the others don’t and they are filled with anger and jealousy. As it says in paragraph three there are many possible themes in All Summer in a Day like bullying and sadness and those are big ones, but they aren’t the main one. Jealousy is what ties both these themes together this is what is driving the kids do do these awful things. The kids locking Margot in a closet and heading outside was a very selfish act towards Margot. Now who is going to be the jealous one, not the kids they all have seen the Sun recently, but Margot hasn't and she will be the one who is now jealous. This ending shows that jealousy can make you do bad things in general and to people and that jealousy is an infinite loophole that never stops, just keeps

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