Jealousy And Fear In All Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury

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In All Summer In a Day , Bradbury explains that jealousy and fear can lead you down a path of bad things. He shows the readers this with a character named Margot, who is different from all the other kids on Venus. And the so called normal kids on Venus have a over looming fear that she does remember the warmth and brightness of the sun, leading them to bully her. The kids who don’t remember the sun become jealous of her memories on earth and try to block her out of anything that they do. If being a bully means that your jealousy is guiding your actions then the other kids are jealous. This proving that even if you are a little bit jealous it can lead you to do many more worse things.
Margot is feared because she is different from others because she doesn't play with the other kids , she gets her way and also due to her remembrance of the sun and earth. This fear that is produced by the other
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Main idea in the story isn't Margot is becoming sad it's why she is so sad, which is the jealousy produced by the other kids. The main theme and idea is that Margot is different and the kids on Venus are living in fear of her and what she so vividly remembers.
As soon as Margot says anything about the sun or even earth the kids become jealous and envis like in page 2 paragraph 3 when the popular kid revokes her poem about the sun and accuses her of stealing it from someone else. “Aw, you didn’t write that!” protested one of the boys” This example can be counted as being jealous of not only what she remembers of the sun but also some of her talents like writing. And in page 3 paragraph 4 it says that there was talk of her parents taking her back to earth and it explains that the kids hated her for

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