All Summer In A Day Bullying Essay

Over 3.2 million students are victims of bullying each year. In fact, about 160,000 teens skip school every day because of bullying. In Ray Bradbury’s All Summer in a Day, Margot, one of the protagonists, lives on Venus -- The planet of rain, where the sun shines only for a few hours every seven years. Unlike other children of her age on the planet, Margot moved to Venus, rather than being born on it, meaning she has seen the sun where the other children have not. Because she remembers its warmth, she experiences emotional and physical bullying due to the other kids’ jealousy. The children, one most prominently --William-- torment Margot because of the experience. Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” demonstrates the way that emotions can cause people to act unfairly to others through the way the that the children speak to Margot, the way that they abuse her, and the way they deprive Margot of what she desires to witness most.

The children in All Summer in a Day treat Margot unfairly, and this can be seen when they speak to and about her. William, one of Margo’s bullies, yells out “Aw, you didn’t write that!” when Margo presents her poem. This shows that he ‘does not’ believe that she wrote it, and is therefore mocking her,

William gives a display of both types of bullying when he speaks to and pushes Margot: “‘What’re you looking at?’ said William. Margot said nothing. ‘Speak when you’re spoken to. He gave her a shove. But she did not move; rather she let herself be moved only by him and nothing else. They edged away from her, they would not look at her. She felt them go away.” This evidence shows that Margot is treated unfairly through bullying, both physical and mental. Physically, by the children like William, and emotionally by the other children who stand by and do nothing but shun her and go along with