All Summer In A Day Ray Bradbury Theme

The story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury is a riveting piece of work. The story is about a girl Margot who has recently just moved to the planet Venus, from Earth, where the sun shines for one hour every seven years. Margot misses seeing the sun everyday from her house in Ohio. Instead, everyday, she sees rain just pouring down and never stops. But Margot is not the only kid missing out on the sun. Other kids on Venus, who were born there, have never seen the sun or even remember what it looks like. Everytime Margot tries to tell them about the sun, they fill themselves with jealousy and they ignore her. Therefore, the theme of the story is that jealousy can make people do inhumane things, but are redeemed once they feel guilt.

Since the beginning of the story, Margot has shut herself out from the other kids because she has experience of the sun and …show more content…
“He gave her a shove. But she did not move; rather she let herself be moved only by him and nothing else. They edged away from her, they would not look at her.” Margot has tried to share her experiences with the sun, but she fails when the kids do not believe her, so the other kids bully and make fun of her. On another day, Margot wrote a poem,”I think the sun is like a flower, That blooms for just one hour.” but a boy named William teased her and said,”’Aw, you didn’t write that!’” but Margot protests,”’I did…. I did.’” Since Margot doesn’t play with them, the kids don’t trust her and that is the reason why they reject her ideas of the sun. Sometimes, when people have never experienced something, people tend to believe that it is not true and that is what the kids are doing and why they are so inhumane towards her. This is why the kids are so jealous of Margot, because she keeps talking about the sun that they never