One Hour Of Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury

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One Hour of Summer People all around the world are different and some people make fun of them because they are "different" than everyone else. Ray Bradbury in "All Summer in a Day" tells a story about a girl who is being bullied because she remembers the Sun. The theme is bullyig is not a good thing to do to other people because when William bully's Margot she doesn't talk to anyone or isn't by all the other students and she doesn't feel safe there wants to go back "home" wich is Earth. Margot stays apart from the whole group of students and not speaking to them. In the story william and Margot are having conversation. “ 'It's like a penny,' she said once, eyes closed. 'No, it's not!' the children cried. 'It's like a fire,' she said, 'in

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