In the story, All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury, takes place in a dystopian life where kids live with their family on planet Venus. This may sound super fun, but on the contrary, it rains and rains and rains and rains. Every seven years the sun shines down on planet Venus for just one hour. Most kids do not remember the sun since they are so young, but Margot is different. She has come over from Earth fairly recently. She grieves the beautiful sun everyday, and this grieving can be observed by her confused classmates. With all viewpoints in consideration, a theme for this short story has evolved from the text: It is difficult to watch someone grieve what you never had. One reason it could be difficult for these kids to understand Margot,
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The kids are shown as jealous of Margot when the story explains, “And they had written small stories or essays or poems about it: 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 outside. “Aw, you didn’t write that!” protested one of the boys. “I did,” said Margot. “I did.’” If being jealous of someone means that you are rude towards them, then this boy is showing jealousy when he is rude to …show more content…
These kids were originally jealous of Margot and her knowledge because they didn’t understand why she was grieving; so in a sense, they had a lack of answers to Margot and her pain. The kids’ anger towards Margot eventually leads to jealousy. On the contrary, once they did experience the sun, they understood Margot’s sadness and they soon began to grieve the sun too. The jealousy these kids experienced is something that people in everyday life experience. There is always something that you may want that another has: therefore, your reaction is to be either angry or jealous. In this case, kids on Venus are going through a vicious cycle of jealousy because one day there will be new kids in this classroom who have never experienced the sun, with maybe a tiny little girl who has experienced the
The kids are shown as jealous of Margot when the story explains, “And they had written small stories or essays or poems about it: 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 outside. “Aw, you didn’t write that!” protested one of the boys. “I did,” said Margot. “I did.’” If being jealous of someone means that you are rude towards them, then this boy is showing jealousy when he is rude to …show more content…
These kids were originally jealous of Margot and her knowledge because they didn’t understand why she was grieving; so in a sense, they had a lack of answers to Margot and her pain. The kids’ anger towards Margot eventually leads to jealousy. On the contrary, once they did experience the sun, they understood Margot’s sadness and they soon began to grieve the sun too. The jealousy these kids experienced is something that people in everyday life experience. There is always something that you may want that another has: therefore, your reaction is to be either angry or jealous. In this case, kids on Venus are going through a vicious cycle of jealousy because one day there will be new kids in this classroom who have never experienced the sun, with maybe a tiny little girl who has experienced the