Closet Door Monologue

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.

When the class sang songs about happiness and games her lips barely moved.” Margot ignored the other children, the only time she participated was when an activity mentioned the sun. Margot keeps herself apart from the rest of the class while she talks about experiences with the sun, when that is what the kids want the most. Although Margot’s classmates hurt her because of their jealousy, Margot was also partly to blame for since she keeps mentioning something that her classmates has always wanted.

Fuck what they talkin' 'bout All a nigga hear is my chains clinkin' back and forth right now, nigga Fuck with me Why the fuck you so opinionated? Sayin' how you do it but they ain't did it, baby

She slowly walks to the window and looks at it, she starts to sob as hard as the rain is pounding on the roof. The teacher comes down the hall.

Even though Margot may not have treated them with complete kindness, this is no way to interact with others. As the sun came closer, the children’s behavior got worse. “Hey everyone, let’s put her in the closet before teacher comes!” (Bradbury, paragraph 26) said one boy. Overall, this behavior that Margot’s classmates display is rude at the very least and violent at the most.

    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,

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.

The children lock Margot in a closet because she has seen the sun when living in Ohio. Later in the story, the author states “they surged about her, caught her up and bore her, protesting, and then pleading, and then crying, back into the tunnel, a room, a closet where they slammed and locked the door” (3). In this case the author is explaining how to deal with their jealousy and trying to avoid Margot’s positivity about the sun and how since it has been raining for seven years straight they haven’t been happy or had any time to go outside and be kids because their life is full of rain, they are limited to playing inside and not being able to enjoy the outdoors and get fresh air. All in all, as you can see how the rain represents negativity and

In The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, the theme is that little things can drive people to insanity. This story shows this when the main character goes crazy, and murders an innocent man. The main character was diseased, and his disease the the main cause of his insanity. If someone was to do such a horrible thing, the would have to have some sort of reason.

    To begin, the author shows that the harassment Margot goes through is due to the children’ lack of knowledge about the sun since they have spent their whole life on Venus. Throughout the day, Margot brings back memories of the sun.

Soon, she was at school and it was the day the sun would come out. But the other kids did not want her to see the sun. In the end they locked her in a closet and did not let her out until the sun left and went away. This story shows that the other kids struggled with understanding Margot.

Since the children are so young they refuse to listen to the truth of what Margot says, and because of that she is hated. "No it’s not!" the children cried. "It’s like a fire," she said, "in the stove." "You’re lying, you don’t remember !" cried the children. But she remembered and stood quietly apart from all of them and watched the patterning windows.” This proves the stubbornness of the children because they refuse to acknowledge that even a little bit of what Margot is saying might be true. Because of this Margot is forced to keep her opinion to prove herself, but that only furthers the gap between her and the other children.

Margot saw the teacher and didn’t know how she should feel. She could almost see the teacher trying to figure out what was going on. The teacher pulled Margot to the other side of the room, away from everyone else.

After the children have played in the sun for two hours, they had realized that Margot was right. This supports my point because it gives specific information on how the children act when the teacher isn’t watching them. When the children acted out finally, the boy William, had pushed her and she didn’t move. They all crept away from her because it was a little creepy. This also supports my claim because the children are so swept up in their own jealousy that they bully her. This shows that children can and will be the next generations of

While some might argue the sun symbolizes the selfishness is something not tamper with. They forgot that at the end of the story you could tell the students were sorry after they walked down the hall very sadly. The children are put down by Margot when the moment of hopefulness is broken when she tells everyone about her experiences back on Earth. In that moment they did not want her poor attitude only hope. The students need role models not haters.