Summer In A Day Margot

In the short story ¨All summer in a Day¨ by Ray Bradbury, Margot moved from earth to venus 5 years ago, where it has been raining since she came. Her experience with the sun separates her from the rest of her peers, for they have forgotten about the warmth of the sun. This fact makes the kids turn against her and lock her in a closet as the sun peers out for the two hours that margot is in there. Margot is always the odd one out with her longing for the sun. When happiness is taken away, people focus on what they don't have instead of what they do, this can separate someone from a group and affect them negatively. Margot misses the sun more than she can comprehend. Margot praises the sun in her writing, but the none of the kids understand her longing for the sun. In …show more content…
The author describes how the rain has changed her in ways that are hard to bear. “ She was a very frail girl who had been lost in the rain for years and the rain had washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair. She was an old photograph dusted from an album, whitened away, and if she spoke her voice would be a ghost.” The rain has really taken a toll on poor margot's life in the worst way possible. She has become unseen, like cellophane. Moving to venus was a bad idea for margot, for it has changed her life in the worst way possible.
Margot never pays attention to the good things in life, but focuses on the bad. Margot rarely participates in activities that can further her happiness, only activities that prolong her sadness. “When the class sang songs about happiness and games her lips barely moved. Only when they sang about the sun and summer did her lips move as she watched the drenched windows.¨ The evidence explains how margot only puts her mind on the negative and never the positive. She didn't mean to, but her pessimistic behavior jumpstarted her on this path into