Character Analysis Of All Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury

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An author of many books once said, “It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.” (Hanoch McCarty). People should be themselves to success. In the short story “All summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, talks about how a girl who lived in earth and then went to Venus, she loved so much the sun that she was different from his classmate, and because of that they bullied her, but she did not care what his classmates said. Margot is a good model immigrant because she did not lose her believes and depends on herself.
Margot moved to another planet with her customs and stayed with them, but she had some trouble in the school because the children did not understand her and socialize, instead they bother her. For example, Margot

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