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Analysis Of All Summer In A Day By David Caplan

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Have you ever done anything because of peer pressure? In the movie “All Summer in a Day” by Ed Caplan is about a girl named Margot that was bullied in her class and about a boy that made an unforgivable decision that hurt Margot in a big way. This movie shows that peer pressure is dangerous because it can make one or more people follow another person, and someone can be too scared to do something about it even if they know it’s wrong. William used peer pressure to get what he wants by making people help him put Margot in the closet. Margot moved to Venus with her family where it rained every day and never stopped for seven years straight. Then they day came, the one day the sun was going to come out for two hours. William always hated Margot,

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