All Summer In A Day: Jealousy

Ray Bradbury’s story “All Summer in a Day” starts out on a rainy day on the planet Venus. Although it wasn’t just that day that was rainy, it’s been rainy every day for seven years. As there was a time long ago when the sun casted on this rainy planet, the children on Venus could not remember. Except for one, Margot a young girl that had just arrived from Earth four years ago. She remembers the warmth and brightness of the sun while she lived in Ohio with her family. At her new school on Venus, Margot shares her memories of the sun with her classmates. Her classmates don’t remember the sun causing them to get jealous and them to hurt Margot later in the story. This suggests that when people can’t get over their

Greed and or Jealousy can lead to bad actions, choices and results. It can happen to one person or multiple people no matter what age they are. This is shown in three stories, “Ponies” written by Kij Johnson, “All Summer in a Day” written by Ray Bradbury and in “Harrison Bergeron” written by Kurt Vonnegut. In “Ponies” there are a group of girls who invited one to a “cutting-out” party. Where a pony picks two of the three thing she has to be cut off for her and her owner to join the club. In “All Summer in a Day,” the girl, Margot knows about the sun while the rest of the kids do not know about the sun - or they do not remember it. Last, in “Harrison Bergeron,” the government forced people to be equal making them wear things they called “handicaps.” In all of these stories it shows how greed and or jealousy can lead to bad actions, choices and results.

The closet door creaked open to reveal the pale and frail girl, curled in a ball, her cheeks wet and hair a mess. Margot’s hands, which were clenched into tight fists, were a raw red color from beating the unyielding door, and dry sobs wracked her whole body. If possible, her dull blue eyes were duller than before. “Margot?” one of the girls cried out softly.

In the short story, All Summer in a Day, Ray Bradbury presents how jealousy can be controlling and shows readers what repercussions can arise if one acts on their envy. A little girl named Margot is living on the planet Venus with a small civilization, and there is no sun. The children mostly came to Venus at age two, whereas Margot came when she was four. So she can remember the sun. For this, they are very jealous of her. Margot shares her memories and the kids are upset they won’t ever feel what she felt. Therefore, one thing leads to another and their jealousy controls them. This causes them to do stuff that one would probably never do if it weren’t for the green-eyed monster. Their actions would soon teach them how can harm others and, inadvertently, themselves.

In the dystopian short story, All Summer In A Day, by Ray Bradbury, there is a crystal clear theme. Bradbury illustrates many scenes that relate to Margot’s classmates feeling jealous towards Margot. Throughout the depressing narrative, the author uses literary devices such as dialogue, metaphors, and dialect to convey the theme of jealousy. Margot’s classmates actions demonstrate truly how envious they really are and what they do not only affects Margot, but themselves as well.

In the short story All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury informs the readers how jealousy can have a person make choices that later are going to regret in their future. Like, pushing shoving, name calling, and accusations. All this is because of your jealousy, jealousy can make you feel guilty in the future.

Kids can be  cruel when they are envious as shown in the short story, “All Summer In A Day,” by Ray Bradbury. The sun is what makes Margot happy, and when that gets taken away from her. In this short story there is several acts of cruelty to Margot by her classmates. These kids live in the planet of Venus, and they haven’t seen the sun in seven years, except for Margot. The kids are only nine years old so they haven’t seen the sun since they were two years old, but Margot moved there from Earth when she was four and she remembers the sun and that makes the other kids envious. In the beginning of the story it is the day that the sun is supposed to come out for the first time in seven years! The kids were skeptical except for Margot because she wanted to see it so bad. The kids were starting to prepare for the sun to come out but they were sitting inside waiting. While they were waiting the kids decided to lock Margot in a closet and not let her out. When the sun came out all the kids ran outside to play in the sun that felt so warm and nice on their skin, except for Margot, who was sitting inside in the dark closet. When the kids came back inside they felt sorry for leaving Margot in there. Envy can lead people to commit awful acts and cause shame as demonstrated throughout the character's actions in, “All Summer In A Day.”

All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury shows that jealousy can cause people to hurt or be cruel to the people that they are jealous of. Sometimes the people who are jealous don’t even realize until after the event that they have hurt someone else, just because they are jealous. This idea is the main theme throughout the short story. The first example in All Summer in a Day occurs when the boy William shoves Margot. William shoved Margot because she had previously described the sun, and no one believed her.

“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.

When others have different experiences, it can make someone jealous and want what they have. The ways jealousy is dealt with can make all the difference: people can either express how they feel calmly, or they could end up losing control and hurt someone. In “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, a group of kids don’t deal with their jealousy and lash out in hurtful ways. The children live on Venus, and all they want is to see the sun on their endlessly rainy planet. On the day when the sun finally comes out, they lock the only girl who actually remembers the sun away, because they’re jealous that she knew the sun before they did. Ray Bradbury uses descriptive language and metaphors to reveal that differences can push people apart and can make people act poorly towards others.

In All Summers In A Day Bradbury teachers us that jealousy can cause you to do things you might regret later. Even though jealousy is a strong feeling they would not crave more if they would not unnecessary things.

The short story All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury has many important themes readers can learn from it. However, the most prominent theme is the power of jealousy, and how envy can cause people to do things they can eventually regret. Students at Margot’s school loathe her because she was originally from earth, a place where the sun shines almost every day. Classmates in the short story were born Venus, and never remember when the sun last came out. The students bully Margot and push her around, but eventually they realize their mistakes and what they have done wrong.

Someone once said, “ I don’t give anyone a reason to hate me. They create their own drama out of pure jealousy.” To be jealous of someone is never okay. For example, to be jealous of someone for the type of phone they have, maybe the pet they have, and even the amount of knowledge they have is not okay. You are who you are, and you can’t change that. Yes, some people may have advantages that you don’t have but, we have to be grateful for what we have and what we’ve got. In the story “All Summer in a Day,” and the piece of art titled “Two Fish,” the theme “jealousy” is used. Don’t be jealous of someone for a certain reason because we all are different and have different skills in life.

All summer in a day teaches us that jealousy can make someone do something that they probably wouldn't do normally.

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.