Gabriel Cordero

All summer in a Day                                            Gabriel Cordero

 

         Jealousy is a central theme in the story "All Summer in a Day "We see how jealousy affects the children in the story when they locked Margot on the closet so that she can't experience the sun with them. They ate jealous because Margot knows what the sun feels and looks like. This makes me think that jealousy makes you mean. After the sun the children remembered they locked Margot in the closet. We get the feeling that they are regret for doing this. This makes me think that jealousy doesn't only hurt the people who are doing it but it also hurts us.

 

         In the beginning we learn why the children are jealous of Margot. She remembers what the sun looks like because she used to live on Earth. "It's like a penny." "No its not" the children cried. This shows us that the children reject the idea that Margot knows what the sun is like. They are so upset that she has experienced the sun and they haven't that they won't even listen to her.

     

         In the middle of the story we continue to see how the children's jealousy is making them mean towards Margot. One example is when kid pushed her and said "Get Away! ".  Also in the text it says, "Hey everyone let's put her in before the teacher comes ". That shows us that the jealousy was getting out of hand.

 

        Towards the end of the story the children's gets out of control. The children decided to lock Margot in the closet so that she that she won't see the sun again.  "They surged about her, caught her up and bore her protesting, and then pleading and crying back into a tunnel room, a closet, where they slammed closed and locked". This shows us how out of control the children's jealousy got. The children don't even seem to be thinking about what they are doing. They just want to hurt Margot.

 

    Bradbury teaches us that we might regret acting impulsively in response to our emotions. The children in this story seem to regret locking Margot in the closet after they realize what they done. This makes the reader think about their own behavior and its consequences.