All Summer In A Day Theme

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“What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life?” (Lynette Mather). In the short story “All summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury and the movie by Eric Kaplan have some differences, in the short story talks how a girl was bullied by her classmates and disliked her by who she was and did not apologize by what they did to her, and in the movie, they still disliked her but she had a friend who supports her and at the end all the children regret for what they did to her. Bullying makes the theme the same because of Margot being locked in the closet and William hatred for her.
William and the children did not liked Margot because they thought she was lying and she did not remember the sun.

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