Jealousy In All Summer In A Day Made By Ray Bradbury

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Have you ever been jealous that you done something extremely bad that you felt bad for it? Well these boys in the story All Summer in a Day locked a girl in a locker because the boys were jealous.

My theme is that jealousy can hurt other people.
In the story All Summer in a Day made by Ray Bradbury, Margot is a girl that got locked up in a locker because William and this other boy was jealous. The reason why is that earlier, when she was saying that when the rain stops the sun will pop up. Which is the reason why she was in the locker. But it was disrespectful to shove someone into a locker.

Then whenever they were going outside, the teacher asked if everyone was here and the boys lied to the teacher by saying that everyone was here, whenever

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