Jealousy

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All Summer in a Day, by Ray Bradbury teaches us that Jealousy can lead to bad things even when no harm was meant. Students lock Margo in a closed due to jealousy. People, especially children can do more than they think when jealousy is involved. Anger may also be an important theme in the story All Summer in a Day. Anger leads to jealousy so it may be a strong theme. Margo gets teased and bullied to no end by her fellow classmates all because of jealousy. Therefor Jealousy plays a big role in Ray Bradbury's All Summer in a Day.

Margo gets locked in a closet by her classmates because they are jealous that she has seen the sun and none of them remember. Margo remembers what the sun feels and looks like, and none of her classmates do. On the
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Jealousy and anger go hand in hand because anger can lead to jealousy and jealousy can lead to anger. Margo may have felt anger towards her class for locking her up during the rare sun showing. It had been 4 years since Margo had last seen the sun and now she will have to wait 7 more years which leaves her at 11 years. Margo also could have felt angry because of all the people bullying her on the normal, rainy days. Like in paragraph 2, page 3, Margo is accused of lying about what she remembers the sun to be like and that may have made her mad because no one likes being accused of something they didn't do. In conclusion, a highly recognized theme in this story may be anger.

Margo is constantly being badgered and harassed as a consequence of jealousy among her schoolmates. On paragraph 8, page 2, William makes fun of Margo and she just lets it happen. also seconding paragraph 2, she gets locked in a closet. Margos classmates are very jealous and that is why they hound Margo.

In conclusion, the main theme in the short story All Summer in a Day, by Ray Bradbury is vaguely about jealous elementary school kids who let jealousy take them to a place they never intended to go. The restless kids lock Margo in a closet because of jealousy. Margo gets badgered to no end just because the school kids are jealous that she has seen the sun and they have not. Jealousy presents itself in many places in the story so it is the main

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