The word jealous defined by the English dictionary is defined as “a feeling or showing envy of someone or their achievements and advantages” and jealousy, which is the noun of the adjective “jealous” has been the main emotion that has been shown in Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer In A Day.” This is a fictional short story, with a very realistic theme, about a girl named Margot. Margot has moved to Venus from Earth, and isn’t too fond of her new home. Margot still has a vivid memory of her native planet, but that turns out to be one of her biggest problems. Another one of her other big problems is that on Venus it is constantly raining, which of course means that clouds are constantly in the sky, and are covering the sun. On Venus, the sun only
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Over the past few days, the kids have been writing stories and poems, researching the sun, trying to get their own idea of what it might be. Meanwhile, Margot already knows what it looks like, and she is writing poems and essays, and all of that, from what she remembered. The kids claim that they don't believe her, but in reality, they just want to hide the fact that they're jealous of Margot, and they are in denial just because Margot is the sole person that knows what it looks like. “They edged away from her, they would not look at her. She felt them go away. And this was because she would play no games with them in the echoing tunnels of the underground city. If they tagged her and ran, she stood blinking after them and did not follow. When the class sang songs about happiness and life and games her lips barely moved. Only when they sang about the sun and the summer did her lips move as she watched the drenched windows.” This quote shows how the kids also didn't like her because she wouldn't cheer up, and how she was gloomy all of the time, and when the kids started to notice that she wouldn't play with them, they just left her out of the …show more content…
In the story, Margot acted depressed around the other kids, she didn't partake in anything. During recess, when Margot suddenly got the ball or got tagged, she’d just sit there not moving. Margot also never talked about anything since she was still in denial of being on Venus rather than being home in Ohio. At the age of 9, most kids don't have any sense of empathy yet, so they can't, and don't try to understand what Margot is thinking/going through. They just think she is weird for not being like the other kids. This is a strong argument to have and believe in, but let's prove how this is surely not the case, and how these kids are secretly jealous of Margot. “Margot stood apart from them, from these children who could ever remember a time when there wasn't rain and rain and rain. They were all nine years old, and if there was a day, seven years ago, when the sun came out for an hour and showed its face to the stunned world, they could not recall.” this quote proclaims the fact that the other kids separate themselves from Margot because they cannot recall a time when they have seen the sun, but on the other hand Margot can remember it and nonetheless describe it vividly. “I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour. That was Margot’s poem, read in a quiet voice in the still classroom while the rain was falling
Over the past few days, the kids have been writing stories and poems, researching the sun, trying to get their own idea of what it might be. Meanwhile, Margot already knows what it looks like, and she is writing poems and essays, and all of that, from what she remembered. The kids claim that they don't believe her, but in reality, they just want to hide the fact that they're jealous of Margot, and they are in denial just because Margot is the sole person that knows what it looks like. “They edged away from her, they would not look at her. She felt them go away. And this was because she would play no games with them in the echoing tunnels of the underground city. If they tagged her and ran, she stood blinking after them and did not follow. When the class sang songs about happiness and life and games her lips barely moved. Only when they sang about the sun and the summer did her lips move as she watched the drenched windows.” This quote shows how the kids also didn't like her because she wouldn't cheer up, and how she was gloomy all of the time, and when the kids started to notice that she wouldn't play with them, they just left her out of the …show more content…
In the story, Margot acted depressed around the other kids, she didn't partake in anything. During recess, when Margot suddenly got the ball or got tagged, she’d just sit there not moving. Margot also never talked about anything since she was still in denial of being on Venus rather than being home in Ohio. At the age of 9, most kids don't have any sense of empathy yet, so they can't, and don't try to understand what Margot is thinking/going through. They just think she is weird for not being like the other kids. This is a strong argument to have and believe in, but let's prove how this is surely not the case, and how these kids are secretly jealous of Margot. “Margot stood apart from them, from these children who could ever remember a time when there wasn't rain and rain and rain. They were all nine years old, and if there was a day, seven years ago, when the sun came out for an hour and showed its face to the stunned world, they could not recall.” this quote proclaims the fact that the other kids separate themselves from Margot because they cannot recall a time when they have seen the sun, but on the other hand Margot can remember it and nonetheless describe it vividly. “I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour. That was Margot’s poem, read in a quiet voice in the still classroom while the rain was falling