All Summer In A Day: How Kids Struggled With Understanding Margot

When he said that he hurt her feelings and he was not thinking of what harm he would do to her. Margot is talking about the sun and how it use to look like when she lived in Ohio, and then the rest of the kids had been in Venus all their life. It had only been 2 years since the sun had come out and the children had forgotten about the color and heat of the way it really was. Margot was the only one who had remembered. "You're lying, you don't remember!" cried the children. The theme is bullying this shows bullying by the children not believing Margot and saying that she is lying and that she has never seen the sun before. It’s talking about how the children hated her for seeing the sun and the children also hated her pale face, her silence, her future, and her thinness. The boy was asking if anything is happening today and the children laughed and shook their heads. Margot was trying to tell the kids that the sun was going to come out but they didn’t believe her. The boy said, "Hey, everyone, let's put

The children are painfully jealous of Margot, therefore, hurting her because of their own pain. Since Margot was different than the others and stood apart, one of her classmates shoved her and mocked her while she looked out at the rain. Margot didn’t respond to any of this jealousy, as it says in the text “But she did not move; rather she let herself be moved only by him and nothing else.” The kids kept mocking, shoving and yelling at Margot because she thought that the sun would come out. The problem progressed so much that the children grabbed Margot and locked her in the closet so she wouldn’t see the sun that just came out in seven years. That sentence in the text was “They surged about her, caught her up and bore her, protesting, and then pleading, and then crying back into a tunnel, a room, a closet, where they slammed and locked the door.” This shows how mean her classmates were, they knew that

on the day the sun came out the kids laughed at her. They laughed at her when she said today was the day. After this they locked her in a closet because they were jealous. They surrounded her and shoved her into the closet and locked her in there until the sun went away for the next seven years. Margot’s classmates did mean things to her out of jealousy like locking her in a closet.

In the story it states after the teacher walks in and asks “are we all here?” and the children reply “yes” this shows that because there was not enough control the seize the opportunity to tease Margot and lock her in the closet. It also states “ Get away! The boy gave her another push” this explains that if the teacher had been there she would not have let the children bully Margot, but because she was not the children were allowed to tease Margot and lock her in the closet showing that they need more control than what they currently

“All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury is a science fiction short story about how Venus only has one hour of daylight and the rest of the time it is cold and raining all year and only in seven years they will have that one hour of daylight. There are people living on Venus and there is one little girl in middle school who adores the sun light and it is her only way of happiness unlike all of the other kids at her school who don't really mind the rain and have never seen the daylight only when they were just little kids. She lives there and goes to school with other kids who don't like her because she says that she's seen the Sun (even though she really has seen the sun because she did for a fact live on earth). In the beginning, Margot is depressed and sad because she used

Margot wrote a poem in class about the sun and all the other kids denied the fact that Margot wrote the poem, out of pure jealousy. Later in the story, on the day the kids are going to see the sun, the teacher leaves the room. The kids then start picking on Margot, but Margot does not want to play in their cruel games. Margot goes on to talk about the sun, “It's like a penny,’ she said once, eyes closed. “No it's not!’ the children cried. ‘It's like a fire,’ she said, ‘in the stove.’ ‘Your lying, you don't remember!’ cried the children.” This quote demonstrates the jealousy of the kids, because they will not except the fact that Margot has seen the

In the short film All Summer In a Day, there is a classroom full of children on a planet very similar to Earth. This story is taking place in the future and on a very dismal planet. The sun only shines once a year and only for a couple hours. On this planet it rains all day, every day. All of the children flock together to see the sun when it shines but one kid in particular is very loving of the memory of the sun. All of the children are too young to remember the sunlight except for the one, Margot. Margot was born on Earth and is older than the other children so she remembers the sunlight very faintly. William is jealous that Margot can remember the sun being out and he cannot. Therefore william picks on Margot by bringing her hope down and

In paragraph two on the second page the author introduces a new character that had been referred to as one of the bullies. This character gets introduced with a conversation between the main character and the bully. “What’re you looking at?” said William. Before this Margot was staring out the window, waiting for the sun to come out. William being the bully he is, questions everything margot does. This is important to the development of the main character Margot because it shows her relationship between the rest of her classmates.

In “All Summer in a Day”, the authority figure is the nine-year-old schoolboy William. The dark story takes place on Venus, where it rains constantly and only one hour of sunlight is witnessed every seven years. The students who live on Venus are unaware of the joy that the sun can potentially bring to them because they were not old enough to appreciate it during its last appearance seven years ago. Young Margot moved from Ohio to Venus five years ago. Therefore, she had recently experienced the sun and even had the ability to properly describe it in her poem as “a flower, that blooms for just one hour.”

Try conceptualizing a world with perpetual rain. This is the world that Bradbury creates in his short story, “All Summer In a Day. A group of scientists and their children live on Venus, a planet that only sees the sun for an hour every seven years. The kids that immigrated here are only 9 years old. They do not remember the sun, as they have only seen the sun once, 7 years ago. But, there is a girl named Margot. Unlike the other kids, she was born on earth and moved to Venus 5 years ago. She has distinct memories of the sun. This causes her to stand out from the other kids. The loss of the sun causes her to grieve. The children living on Venus treat Margot mercilessly in jealousy due to her prior knowledge and experiences. This causes Margot to be a victim of depression, harassment, and denial.

    Margot gets treated cruelly by those in her class because they are envious of where she’s from and her knowledge, or experience. Margot is nine years old, living on the planet Venus, where she moved from Earth, when she was four years old. Margot is the only kid in her class the remembers the sun and this makes all the other kids envious of her because when the other kids saw the sun they were only two years old but Margot was four which makes them  jealous. When Margot was talking about the scientist predicting the sun would come out one of the boys said, “‘All a joke… let’s put her in a closet before the teacher comes back!’” (Bradbury 3). The  kids are so envious or jealous of Margot that they want to lock her in a closet, right before the sun is supposed to come out because they don’t believe it is. When the sun finally came out  the children rush outside to enjoy nature and the sun,

“It has been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain, with the drum and gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands.” (Bradbury, 1954) In the dystopian story, “All Summer In A Day” by Ray Bradbury, it takes place on the planet, Venus. A group of children, along with scientists get to live there, while being educated at the underground school. Margot, who is only 9 years old, wasn't born on Venus like the other children, but instead on Earth. She’s the only one who remembers how the sun felt through her skin and how beautiful it shined. On the contrary, the other children are jealous of her because she has some memory of the sun, while they don’t. Jealousy caused the children to harass, isolate, and make her depressed.

All Summer in A Day by Ray Bradbury is about how a little jealousy can turn into rage and reveals that children, along with adults, can be blinded by something so simple.The author of All Summer in A Day believes jealousy and bullying are the key emotions played in this short story. Bradbury claims that the main characters, Margot, is being bullied because she was Earth longer. Whereas, the other students don’t even remember Earth because of how early they all moved to Venus. When Margot arrives, she was four. The other children had arrived two years before. The author describes her as “a very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years and the rain washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the

Imagine living on a different planet, but being isolated and friendless. This happens to a girl named Margot in the short story, “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury. Margot is treated poorly by her classmates throughout the story. In the story, several scientists, along with their children, occupy underground tunnels on Venus. It seems perfect-minus one problem. It is constantly raining, for seven years in a row. The sun is said to come out on the day the story takes place, and Margot can’t wait. She is the only one of her classmates who remembers the sun, since she moved to Venus when she was five. However, the envious children grab Margot and shove her in a closet. The sun comes out, and they play and delight in its warmth. When it goes away, they remember Margot, and, heads hung low, they let her out of the closet. The children of Venus are harsh towards Margot because they are jealous of her. Because of this, she becomes isolated, depressed, and is constantly harassed by her peers.

The other children aren’t able to connect with Margot on a personal level, which eliminates the possibility for friendship, and the simple idea of a civil conversation. “Margot stood apart from them, from these children who could ever remember a time when there wasn’t rain and rain and rain.” This proves that since the other children can’t connect with Margot on a personal level because they can never experience what she has. This stems from the fact that Margot used to live on Earth and would see the sun every day, while the other children only saw rain outside their windows.