Jealousy In 'All Summer In A Day'

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Friends are there to you make you feel happy, even in your worse times. “Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness” (Euripides). In the short story, “All Summer in a Day” told by Ray Bradbury, a young girl named Margot gets tyrannized by her fellow classmates for remembering about the sun. But in the movie, “All Summer in a Day” retold by Eric Kaplan, Margot only gets tyrannized by William, and not so much by her classmates. While the short story has a theme focusing on jealousy, the movie focuses on sympathy. The movie makes the theme different because they made Margot more outgoing and the kids had sympathy for her. In the beginning of the short story the author described Margot of being more of an outsider. As the author

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