All Summer In A Day Ray Bradbury Analysis

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A simple closet can be more than just a coat space. It can make you experience just how lonely and secluded someone else feels. In Ray bradbury's All Summer in a Day he did just that. He took a boring closet and used it to symbolize how Margot felt in the closet on venus.
Firstly Margot stood apart from the other children because she was so much more familiar with the sun than the kids were. “Margot stood apart from them, from these children who could never remember a time where there was not rain and rain and rain.” In this quote Ray Bradbury tells the reader she is an outcast. “They edged away from her,they would not look at her.” The children feel as if she is untouchable, a castaway.
Although the closet could also be a way to make margot

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