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All Summer In A Day Ray Bradbury
“All a joke!” said the boy, and seized her roughly. In the story All summer in A Day, a short story by Ray Bradbury, Margot, a small timid girl gets one of her wishes ripped away from her. It was the first day in seven years that the sun would appear in the planet of Venus. Everybody in Margot’s class didn't believe the stories she told them from when she lived on planet Earth. The day th sun would be coming out, Margot told the class what was going to happen, but as usual they just ignored her and even had the nerve to lock her up in a closet. SO the time came when the sun came out, her classmates all had fun and forgot all about locked up Margot. The children were this way because they were angry and jealous, and when you feel these two, you tend to do things without thinking twice about it, because those emotions are pretty strong. In this case, these emotions led to poor Margot getting locked up so she wouldn’t see the sun. …show more content…
It was very evident that they were just jealous that they didn't have the same past experiences with the sun like she had with the sun. She had shared those with the class, and they didn’t like it because she seemed happy. Margot wasn’t like the rest of her classmates, she was different. Apart from the fact that she came from planet earth. She was more kept to herself due to the fact that her classmates isolated her most of the time, because of jealousy. Adding to the fact that Margot had experience with the sun, she had heard that her parents were deciding to move back to planet earth. She wasn't the only person who heard this, of course the rest of her classmates had heard aswell, making them dislike her even more. Instead of giving her a chance to feel more welcome, they secluded her even more and even ripped away from a piece of her happiness all because they let jealousy get the better of

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