Bullying Margot Theme

In “All Summer in a Day” and “Raymond’s Run” 2 characters, Margot and Raymond are being bullied for being different. Margot is bullied, but could not stand up for herself while the victims of bullying in “Raymond’s Run” stood up for Raymond. Even though Margot and Raymond are being bullied, there are different reasons for their bullying and also different effects led to the bullying. “All Summer in a Day” and “Raymond’s Run” feature characters who are bullied for different reasons and to different effects, but both stories show the harmful effects of bullying.

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

The short story All Summer in A Day, by Ray Bradbury is about the power of jealousy and demonstrates if jealousy is not controlled, it will lead to regretful actions upon yourself. Jealousy is a key topic in the story, and in my opinion, is the main topic of the story. Although, there are other key topics in the story. All Summer in A Day is about a group of kids, who all their lives have been living in a world, Venus, with no sun and the constant sound of rain. Then there is Margot. Margot knows what it is like to have the sun shining down on her skin, she knows what it is like to feel the warm embrace of the sky. For the first time in seven years the sun is going to come out and everybody is extremely anxious and excited. The other kids are

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 the story, All Summer in a day, by Ray Bradbury, the setting helps develop the mood of sadness, and depression. The author does this by making the setting dark and stormy everyday on venus. The setting makes the story gloomy at first, but when the sun comes out for one hour, it makes the reader hopeful, but the main character missed the sun. That makes the reader’s mood depressed and sad.

There are many conditions that affect Margot, One of them is depression. Unlike the other kids, Margot moved to Venus 5 years ago. She remembers the sun. Studies have shown that people who live in places where the sun doesn’t shine for the better part of time can be depressed from Vitamin D or lack of the sun. This is what is happening to Margot. She used to be surrounded by the sun all the time after she moved, the amount of Vitamin D in her body became flat. This is illustrated in the excerpt, “ ‘Oh, it’s much better than the sun lamps, isn’t it?’”(Bradbury 1954) . This excerpt is exposing how they prevent depression in the kids. They use special lamps that imitate the sun. They

This book is about Kurt trying to find his sister and Stacey trying to cope with everyone talking behind her back and everyone talking about her pregnancy. Carol shows that anyone can handle getting bullied but there is a limit, people shouldn’t get bullied because a lot of kids are committing suicide because of it, and that when kids are getting bullied they can handle it but then when it comes to a point they can’t handle it they don’t think life is worth living for, Carols shows this in Stacey because She was getting bullied everyday by almost all the kids and she went through it all the time but then when it comes to a certain point she couldn’t bare the fact that she had to go through it every day. People who get bullied always wants revenge to the bully and in the book The Night My Sister Went Missing Mark Stern was trying to get revenge because Stacey cheated on Mark a lot because she was always out with people every night they were dating. I think that the author was trying to send a message because Carol Plum-Ucci has created this book for teens and wanted to send a message by showing that bullying can lead to very serious matters like suicide and she shows that by making Stacey the victim of bullying and showing that Stacey couldn’t live with her self any more so she decided to commit

The theme of the novel is that everything is not what it seems. This was demonstrated when the author wrote “I didn't know there was a sketch on my painting. I flip over the paper, to see what dad has written on the back. Theres the date, 5 years ago. And the words Eloise, Les Deux Chemins. Wait. I don't understand”(Friedman 158). This quote demonstrates the theme because she thought the skech was of her but it was really something else. The sketch was of her secret sister Eloise that she did not know she had. When Summer found out that the painting of what she thought was her for the past 5 years was actually someone else she was shocked and she was also upset with her dad for not telling her.

But she remembers the sun, unlike the others, from her time on Earth. She becomes the outcast because the rest of the students envy her for her remembrance of the sun. In “God’s Plan” and “All Summer in a Day” there is a recurring theme in both pieces; but there is also differences in both. A similar theme in both “God’s Plan” and “All Summer in a Day” is that people tend to try and bring other people down who have something they don't.

All of the students looked at Margot with saddened faces. “We were so caught up in the moment of the sun coming out,” a boy said. “We didn’t mean to have you miss the sun, we thought you were lying.” Margot looked like she was inside of a blender, and all of the knives were cutting her up. She was tired and beaten. Her hair was all frizzy, and she had some bumps on her shoulder from trying to bust down the door.

In All Summer In A Day Margot desperately wants to be happy she has not seen the sun in seven years since she moved to Venus and feels homesick. There, it is a constant downpour of rain. Everyone else grows jealous because she saw the sun. The kids teases and bully her for seeing the sun. She wants to be happy and just cannot seem to be happy. ¨Only when they sang about the sun and the summer did her lips move as she watched the drenched windows,¨ even when we try sometimes we get stuck and fall. We can't accomplish everything and it's okay to be stuck.

    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,

In the story All Summer in a Day, by Ray Bradbury, the message brought out of it was that you have to take what you have or get what you want, because in life, there’s no time for waiting around. The main character, Margot, told all of the kids at school that it was going to be a sunny day, and they hadn’t believed her, which later proceeded with the children locking her away in the classroom’s closet. She had let them do this with little challenge, and she’d only tried to do something when it was too late. The children of the school came back later, but it didn’t matter anymore to Margot, because they had taken away the day she had been dreaming of for quite some time now. She hadn’t seen the sun, and now she just lost her opportunity for as long as seven years.

One of the several results of the children’s jealousy towards Margot is her becoming isolated. “So after that, dimly, dimly, she sensed it, she was different and they knew her difference and kept away.” (Bradbury, 1954). The author uses repetition, particularly the repetition of the word “dimly”, to indicate that Margot was unaware of how different she was from the other children. After she rejects the shower though, she finally begins to understand why the children keep their distance from her. On the other hand, the children did try to include her in their games, but due to her depression, Margot withdraws herself from them. Ironically, the children themselves are acting this way because they are also isolated from others. From what can be seen in the story, the children sleep in the same room, and do not speak often with others. So when they can leave their proverbial prison, they jump at the opportunity. Bradbury writes, “Then wildly, like animals escaped from their caves, they ran and ran in shouting circles.” (Bradbury, 1954). The children’s isolation causes them to express their rage at Margot in unique forms. Meanwhile, Margot becomes depressed from her long seclusion from her classmates.

Margot is marked as an outcast for something she’s not responsible for. “...the biggest crime of all was that she had only come here five years ago from Earth, and she remembered the sun and the way the sun was and the sky was when she was four in Ohio.” This proves that Margot is being marked as an outcast because the usage of dreary words such as crime and only project how lowly the other children think of her.