Imagine moving from Earth, to a planet where the sun shines once every seven years, and when it isn’t shining its raining. Well that is what the main character of Ray Bradbury’s short story “All Summer in a Day” had to go through. Margot, the main character, moved from Ohio to the planet Venus, when she was only four years old. She had been living on Venus for about five years and it was hard for her since the sun meant so much to her. She got picked on and bullied a lot, just because she was so obsessed with the sun. She remembered how the sun looked and felt, while the other kids didn’t. She would remind them of this when she would talk only about the sun, which seemed to make the kids jealous. The message of the story is that jealousy can
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In the beginning of the story, the kids were very rude towards Margot but by the end that all changed. Bradbury painted a very vivid scene in the reader's head, the text stated, “They walked slowly down the hall in the sound of cold rain. They turned through the doorway to the room in the sound of the storm and thunder, lightning on their faces, blue and terrible. They walked over to the closet door slowly and stood by it.” The reason Bradbury wrote this piece is to build suspense and make the reader anxious. In addition, this shows how jealousy changes a person. In the beginning the kids are very impolite to Margot and tease her a lot, but clearly that wasn’t their normal selves. The reason is, the kids are being so caught up in their jealousy they didn’t realize what they were doing was wrong, but, only until they came back inside did they realize that they locked Margot in a closet. The reason they take so long to get Margot out of the closet is because they are ashamed of themselves and can’t believe what they have done. Their harsh actions really hurt Margot and left her feeling miserable, since they took away the only thing that Margot really loved. Jealousy is very dangerous and could leave someone hurt, because when somebody is jealous they usually aren’t aware of what they are doing or saying, and so they might say something that they don’t mean or wouldn’t normally
In the beginning of the story, the kids were very rude towards Margot but by the end that all changed. Bradbury painted a very vivid scene in the reader's head, the text stated, “They walked slowly down the hall in the sound of cold rain. They turned through the doorway to the room in the sound of the storm and thunder, lightning on their faces, blue and terrible. They walked over to the closet door slowly and stood by it.” The reason Bradbury wrote this piece is to build suspense and make the reader anxious. In addition, this shows how jealousy changes a person. In the beginning the kids are very impolite to Margot and tease her a lot, but clearly that wasn’t their normal selves. The reason is, the kids are being so caught up in their jealousy they didn’t realize what they were doing was wrong, but, only until they came back inside did they realize that they locked Margot in a closet. The reason they take so long to get Margot out of the closet is because they are ashamed of themselves and can’t believe what they have done. Their harsh actions really hurt Margot and left her feeling miserable, since they took away the only thing that Margot really loved. Jealousy is very dangerous and could leave someone hurt, because when somebody is jealous they usually aren’t aware of what they are doing or saying, and so they might say something that they don’t mean or wouldn’t normally