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Bullying In All Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury

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Bullying affects everyone, this is a common theme in "All Summer in a Day". Throughout this short story there are many events that cause everyone feeling glum about what is going on. In this part of the story the students have realized that Margot was left in the closet while the sun was out for the first time in several years. "They glanced at the world that was raining now and raining and raining steadily. They could not meet each other 's glances." (Bradbury 4) At this moment Bradbury wants us to feel what the children are feeling. They all cannot look at one another because they are ashamed of their wrong doing. The children do not know why they locked Margot in the closet if it was going to have this turnout. Bradbury also used the weather

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