'Jealousy In Ray Bradbury's All Summer In A Day'

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Ray Bradbury’s All Summer in a Day teaches readers how greed and jealousy can lead to bad choices and bad outcomes. In this story, the main character, Margot, is shoved by the other kids. This event shows how jealousy leads to bad outcomes. Some may argue that All Summer in a Day is all about seeing the sun or sadness, but others argue that the story is about jealousy and greed. Later in the story, a boy shoves Margot into a closet. He was so jealous that he made a bad choice. While reading this story, readers learn that greed and jealousy will lead to bad choices and bad outcomes.

The author of this story characterizes the kids full with jealousy and greed. On page two, paragraph eight, a boy named William speaks to Margot, but she does not speak back. The boy becomes angry and shoves her. Since Margot knows more about the sun than the other kids, his jealousy and greed blinded him from her intelligence. Also on page two, the author explains about the poem about the sun Margot shares with the class. Margot is different so they argue with her that she had written the poem. Everyone else in the class is jealous of her
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The author explains in detail on page two, paragraph seven that Margot being so sad, that she had changed. “... she had been lost in the rain… the rain had washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair.” (Bradbury, pg.2). Not being able to see the sun, sadden her and changed her. On that same page and in the same paragraph, the author shares how since the sun had been taken away, her happy ways and happiness was taken away. “She was an old photograph dusted from an album, whitened away, and if she spoke at all her voice would be a ghost.” (Bradbury, pg. 2) The realism of not seeing the sun, sadness had taken over her body, mind, spirit. These events show what others may argue and

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