Jealousy In Ray Bradbury's All Summer In A Day

In Ray Bradbury’s All Summer in a Day, readers learn that jealousy can make people do things that they wouldn’t normally do. This is obvious because of how the other kids pick on and hate Margot. The other kids who live there are angry at Margot because of the fact that she had arrived on Venus when she was four years old while the others had lived there their entire lives. On Venus, the sun comes out once every seven years.The other children who live on Venus have only seen the sun once when they were two years old. I think that the theme of this story is that jealousy can make people do things that they wouldn’t normally do because of the way they treat Margot because she can still remember the sun. For example, when Margot was writing a poem about the sun, a boy named William exclaimed. “‘Aw, you didn’t write that!”’ That shows how much tension is between her and the other kids. Other signs of anger that is shown towards Margot is when none of the other kids believe her when she tries to explain to them that that was the day that scientists had predicted the sun would finally show. As it says in the book,”’Nothing!’ he cried.’It was all a joke, wasn’t it?”’ Which explains how just because Margot remembered the sun, they refuse to believe anything she says. Other readers might argue that All Summer in a Day was …show more content…
In the midst of the excitement when the sun showed, they forgot about Margot in the closet and she never got to see it. This is an example of how the children, who were were so driven by jealousy, would not let Margot see the sun when she had been suffering for all those years just like they had. Although it does not say it in the book, but after they remember that Margot was in the closet, they seemed to feel bad about what they had