In The Far Future Jealousy

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

“This is channel 10 and you’re watching the weather forecast. It’s a sunny day today in Ohio at 82 degrees. Get ready for a humid sunny day with no clouds, and spend some time outside in this phenomenal weather with your family. Don't forget to have an amazing day! We’ll be back right after this short commercial break... CUT! And we’re out.” The weather forecaster flashes his dazzling smile back down into his neutral face and falls out of view from the camera. In the short story, “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, it rains tirelessly on the planet of Venus. A young nine year old girl, Margot suffers from depression from the lack of sun and harassment of other children. She misses the sun, which only comes once every seven years for a measly two hours. Margot moved to Venus from Ohio five years ago, she reminisces the basking of the sun that she no longer has. All her classmates were too young to remember the sun, so as a result, their jealousy causes her to be harassed verbally and physically. The damage it does to her, has her fall into a mentally unstable position. With the lack of sun on Venus it had caused Margot to become depressed, making her feel trapped. This is shown in the story when she struggles with adapting to a different environment, her opportunities, and isolating herself.

In the beginning of the story it said in paragraph 34-35 that after when William said something the kids said “You wouldn’t remember anything from that long ago”!. They were followers to William and not doing what they could have done and just stayed out of it or maybe even help out Margot instead of being mean to her like William. When it William put Margot in the closet they just followed instead of saying something or even going to get the teacher and tell on him and what he is doing.They were ruining their only way of happiness too because if they didn't follow in William's footsteps they would've been better off without him. In the end they were the ones who told him that Margot was in the closet they must've felt even worse at the end of the story because of what they realized what they have done to her. This is proof that the children changed in the

“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that intimidation is suicide…” (Emerson 370). A Separate Peace, written by John Knowles, takes place at Devon, a preparatory school in New Hampshire, during the 1940’s. Gene Forrester is a student at Devon and drives much of the story’s plot through his intimidation of his best friend Finny. A Separate Peace not only shows how Gene’s envy and intimidation of Finny affected him and his friendship with Finny, but it also shows Gene’s failure in achieving true peace.

The text states, “It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain...(92)” This explains that it is always raining on venus, and the kids have yet to see the real sun, except for the main character, Margot. She has seen the sun when she was little, and then was taken to mars.

The overall idea is displayed in the story when the children from Venus lock her in a closet because she told them the sun was coming out. A quote to support that is, “”But this is the day, the scientists predict, they say, they know, the sun…” … “let’s put her in a closet before the teacher comes!” “No,” said Margot. They… caught her up and bore her… where they slammed and locked the door. They stood looking at the door and saw it tremble from her beating and throwing herself against it. … Then, smiling, they turned and went out and back down the tunnel, just as the

“And once, a month ago, she had refused to shower in the school shower rooms, had clutched her hands to her ears and over her head, screaming that the water mustn’t touch her hair.” (Bradbury, 1954) In the short story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, Margot is a 9-year old girl who lives on the planet of Venus. On Venus, it rains every day, and the sun only comes out every 7 years. Margot is different from others because of her experiences. This is shown when she is described as antisocial, depressed, and isolated. Among many children her age, Margot is the only child who has lived on Earth before moving to Venus, and remembers what the sun looked and felt like. The other children have lived on Venus their whole lives and don’t remember the sun, as they were only two years old when they had last seen the sun.

Throughout the story the students need the rain will stop and they hope for that to. On Venus as many know it rains a lot and have the sun come out for two hours every seven years. People can’t put so much faith into something that might not happen considering the circumstances. In the story it says “ It rained”. For a kid to have so hope that it will happen it is very harsh to know that it probably won’t

The children do what they do to Margot because they do not want her to see the sun.

In “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, the children hate Margot, the main character, because of jealousy as the kids envy her prolonged experience with the sun on Earth. In this story, Margot and her classmates live on the planet Venus. It rains there everyday and all

Rain pours outside like an overflowing canteen waiting to be tipped over. Thunder crackles like fireworks on the 4th of July. And Margot could not be more despondent. The only thing keeping her awake at night is the fact that the sun will come out tomorrow, to experience it’s true glory, for the first time on the planet Venus. Unfortunately, she was locked in a closet by the envious bullies that were jealous of her superior experiences. In the story “All Summer In a Day” by Ray Bradbury, the main character, Margot, is upset because of the constant rain on the planet Venus, and the persistent torments by the envious bullies due to the jealousy that the children feel about her experiences. Thesis goes here.

“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.

Just because Margot had seen the sun didn’t give the kids a reason to be mean to her. When the kids decided to lock her in a closet it was because they were jealous. Instead of being jealous they could have asked her questions. “I think the sun is a flower; That blooms for just one hour: That was Margot’s poem, read in a quiet voice in still classroom while the rain was falling outside.” According to Bradbury even children were saying that she was lying, “You’re lying, you don’t remember! cried the children.” Being mean even for

Margot is trying to tell the other students how scientists predicted that the sun would come out and then William laughed and said: “All a joke, Let’s push her into the closet before the teacher gets back,!” Margot begged to get out but they wouldn’t refuse to open the door. They were all just jealous that she knew some more stuff about the sun then they did. All these examples prove that most of the kids in the school are jealous of Margot.

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.