Was Margot really lying? Or, was she telling the truth? The story takes place on Venus, where it rains non-stop, everyday. Margot used to live on Earth, where she could see the sun every day. She, unlike the others, remembers what the sun not only looks like, but also the happiness that the sun brought to her. In the story, the kids locked her in a closet, afterwards, when they saw the sun, the realized she was right all along, which is when the start feeling empathy towards her. One of the themes is to use empathy towards others. The children knew that they did something really wrong, they knew what they had to do. When the author wrote “ They stood as if someone had driven them, like so many stakes, into the ground.”
Was Margot really lying? Or, was she telling the truth? The story takes place on Venus, where it rains non-stop, everyday. Margot used to live on Earth, where she could see the sun every day. She, unlike the others, remembers what the sun not only looks like, but also the happiness that the sun brought to her. In the story, the kids locked her in a closet, afterwards, when they saw the sun, the realized she was right all along, which is when the start feeling empathy towards her. One of the themes is to use empathy towards others. The children knew that they did something really wrong, they knew what they had to do. When the author wrote “ They stood as if someone had driven them, like so many stakes, into the ground.”