All Summer In A Day Analysis

In the story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, the main character, Margot, had some trouble with her peers at a school on the planet, Venus. Margot, throughout the story, was describing the amazing sun which she remembered from living on Earth to all of the kids who have lived on Venus all of their lives. Since they live on Venus they are not able to see the sun because it literally is always raining, that lead all of the kids to become jealous of her because they don’t remember what the sun looks and feels like, but Margot does. So this led all of the Venus kids to bully and make fun of her. But after reading the story I identified that the reason why the kids were bullying her was that they were jealous. After that, I realized that the theme of the story is that jealousy will cause you to do something that you will regret later on. This was well represented in the story because the kids that were bullying Margot did it because they were jealous, and by the end of the story they realized that they were wrong and regretted what they said and did to Margot.

First, in the story, on page 2, it said, “The biggest crime of all was that she had come here only five years ago from Earth, and she remembered the sun and the way the sun was and the sky was when she was four years old in Ohio. And hey had been on Venus all their lives, and they had been only two years old when last the sun came out and had long since forgotten the color and heat of it and the way it really