Jordy Mejia 7/16/14 803 In Ray Bradbury's short story, ''All summer in a day '' kids on Venus only saw rain. A young girl Margot was the only one who saw the sun. The kids were jealous that she had seen the sun because she told about it to the kids and wrote the poetry. In the story ''all summer in a day'' we are introduced to the reason the children might be jealous of Margot. ''Margot stood apart from them, from these children who could ever remember a time when there wasn't rain and rain and rain.'' This shows that she is different from them because she has experienced the sun and they have not. We learn that Margot used to live on Earth when she experienced the sun, something the other children could dream about.
In the middle of the story we see how the children's jealousy makes them mean. They begin to hurt Margot and they push her away. For example they throw Margot in the closet. Another example is that a kid takes her poem. The last example is that they harass her and bore her. In the story it says they surged about her, caught her up, and bore her, protesting and pleading, and crying, back into the tunnel a room, a closet where they slammed and locked the door. This shows that the kid's jealousy affected Margot. This means that the problem got out of hand.
After the children locked Margot in the closet they run outside to enjoy their glorious hours in the sun. When it's over the mood changes they realize the terrible thing they did by locking Margot it the closet. The children did all of this because they were jealous that Margot remembered the sun.
In Ray Bradbury's short story "All summer in a Day", emotions such as jealousy can make us behave in a way that we regret. This story teaches the reader to think before acting because when we act out against others we only hurt ourselves.
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