Margot’s initial exclusion from the other students may speak to difficulties of integrating people into a new society. In the short story “All Summer In a Day” (Short Story) Margot struggles to fit in with the other children every day, as she does not get along with them due to her birth on Earth. The children, and in particular William, hold power over her due to her differences. With Margot being frail and mismatched, she is easy to take advantage of and, therefore, William exercises his power throughout the short story to keep improving his status in the children's community. The students then start to resent her past experiences on earth and become angry and jealous that she remembers the sun. “Margot stood apart from them, from these
