Discrimination In 'All Summer In A Day'

How would you feel if you couldn’t vote like everybody else or drink from the same water fountain just because you are different? After reading various texts this year, it is apparent that the topic of discrimination appears in literature as well as in the real world. Discrimination is the practice of unfairly treating a person or group of people differently from other people or groups. Discrimination happens everyday and my paper proves even in literature there is discrimination.
One way that the topic of discrimination appears in literature is in the poem “All Summer in a Day.” The little girl in the poem has seen the sun, and the other kids haven’t so they locked her in the closet when the sun came. I know this because in “All Summer in a Day” it says, “The biggest crime of all was that she had come here only 5 years ago from Earth and she remembered the sun and they had been on Venus all of their lives and never seen the sun.” …show more content…
The Germans discriminate against Jews by treating them unfairly by taking some of their rights away. I know the Germans discriminated against the Jews because in The Diary of Anne Frank it says, “Our freedom was severely restricted by a series of anti-Jewish decrees: Jews were required to wear a yellow star; Jews were required to turn in their bicycles; Jews were forbidden to use streetcars; Jews were forbidden to ride in cars, even their own; Jews were required to do their shopping between 3 and 5 P.M.; Jews were required to frequent only Jewish-owned barbershops and beauty parlors; Jews were forbidden to be out on the streets between 8 P.M. and 6 A.M.; Jews were forbidden to go to theaters, movies or any other forms of entertainment; Jews were forbidden to use swimming pools.” This evidence shows that the Germans discriminated against the Jews because they wouldn't let them do certain things they had rights to do. (The Diary of Anne