Margot Struggles: All Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury

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.”

In conclusion, the first topic talks about when they lock Margot in the closet, the second topic talks about how they harass her, and the third topic is about how they accuse Margot of knowing what the sun looks like. The three topics I choose to write about all connected to the idea of bullying and depression. “All Summer In A Day” is a very interesting short story written by Ray Bradbury. It touches on the subject of bullying and how it can affect others mentally and

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In the short story, “All Summer in a Day,” by Ray Bradbury, our protagonist, Margot, gets harassed by her classmates for several reasons. On Venus, there is a 2 hour period every 7 years of constant rain where the sun comes out. Since Margot moved to Venus 5 years ago, she can remember the sun and has full memories of it. Margot is tormented by her classmates, the antagonists, simply because of their jealousy. This emotion empowers the behavior of Margot’s classmates, leading them to regret their actions.

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    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.

Imagine you are different than every kid around you, and you get harassed because of it. In the short story, “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury it describes how a group of scientists that brought their children to the planet Venus to create a new life. The main character Margot is much different than the kids that she goes to school with. Everyone accept Margot was born on Venus, but Margot moved her when she was four. On Venus it never stops raining, and they never see the sun. Margot remembers what the sun looks like and deeply misses it. The children on Venus are jealous of Margot’s opportunity, and this causes them to treat Margot poorly, and make bad decisions. The author uses metaphors, craft, to illustrate this, along with locking

They do not want to be their own because they are afraid that the other children would turn against them. The narrator stated “… They all blinked at him and then understanding, laughed and shook their heads.”(Page 2) Margot’s classmates wanted to believe that the sun is going to come out, but they refused to defend their individual belief. They were scared to be bullied; therefore chose to remain silent and went with the flow. The children’s lack of individual identity affects their values on morality. The narrator stated “They stood looking at the door and saw it tremble from her beating and throwing herself against it. They heard her muffled cries. Then, smiling, they turned and went out…”(Page 3) Margot’s classmates does not want to be denied by others; as a result they did not went against the majority’s actions; even though they knew it is wrong. Margot’s classmates did not care about their own identity; therefore they follow what the crowd did. Margot’s classmates want to fit in more than being on their own; so it affected their values and

Imagine living on the planet Venus where it is dark and rainy all day, everyday. Imagine never experiencing the way the sun feels on your body or what it is like to be woken up early in the morning by the bright sun. In the short story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury the young children never experience the sun. It takes place on the planet Venus where it rains all year round. It focuses on a conflict between a group of school children and a girl named Margot who doesn’t fit in with the other children.

“All summer day” by Ray Bradbury is a science fiction about Margot who lives on Venus. In the beginning she only talks about the sun. And only plays games about the sun. in the middle she gets bullied. And she gets lastly locked in a close. She missed the sun while she was locked in a closet. And all the kids feel bad this story shows that Margot struggles on Venus.

“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

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 what it would feel like to move to a whole new world where everything is dark and gloomy all the time. What would life be like without the sun shining bright in the sky every morning and instead, having the constant thump of rain droplets sound in your ear everyday? In “All Summer In a Day”, by Ray Bradbury, that is what life is like on Venus: Margot’s new home. Unlike Margot, her classmates have no recollection of what the sun feels or even looks like. In this story, Bradbury analyzes what life without the sun would be like for the children on Venus. Additionally, Bradbury also presents how the human race has the ability to be jealous and hateful towards anyone who is different or stands out in any way and how there are consequences to that. In the dystopian story, Margot isolates herself while she grieves the loss of the sun, but her constant mention of it to her peers sparks jealousy in them. Bradbury creates a theme that suggests that when people hold onto their own pain, more often than not they end up hurting those around them.

“Ona Cloud Rider”, by Stuart Baum. “All Summer in a Day” is about a child named Margot, who is living on Venus. She previously lived on earth, but due to overpopulation, she moved to Venus. Since on Venus, the sun comes out only 1 day every 7 years “It had been raining for seven years. (Bradbury, 1)”. The other children on Venus bully Margot for her hope of seeing the sun. One day, the other children lock Margot in a room, right when the sun finally comes out after the 7 long years. In “Ona Cloud Rider”, Ona is a 3-year-old girl who lives atop a very tall hill. Ever so often, clouds would come by, and Ona would ride them. She brought a friend to ride clouds with her, but then a bad storm started and so did the conflict.