Jealousy And Bullying In Ray Bradbury's All Summer In A Day

The author of All Summer in A Day believes jealousy and bullying are the key emotions played in this short story. Bradbury claims that the main characters, Margot, is being bullied because she was Earth longer. Whereas, the other students don’t even remember Earth because of how early they all moved to Venus. When Margot arrives, she was four. The other children had arrived two years before. The author describes her as “a very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years and the rain washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair. She was an old photograph dusted from an album, whitened away, and if she spoke at all her voice would be a ghost.” Ray Bradbury’s target is to teach us that the short story All Summer in A Day by Ray Bradbury is about how a little jealousy can turn into rage and reveals that children, along with adults, can be blinded by something so simple. In the beginning of the story, Bradbury starts out by giving us an example how Margot was bullied. After Margot read her poem aloud to her class, a boy had complained that her poem wasn’t hers when it really was. This supports my claim because the boy is jealous that Margot got to know what the Sun felt like on her skin or what the Sun looked like in her point of view. When the children are waiting for the rain to stop, she said something that made the children in disbelief and shock that she spoke. She had told them “It’s like a penny,” and