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Literary Analysis Essay On All Summer In A Day

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“All Summer in a Day” Thematic Essay The short story “All Summer in a Day,” written by Ray Bradbury, depicts a dystopian world on Venus revolving around the struggles the main character, Margot, faces. Margot suffers from constant bullying by her classmates, who despise her in part because she is the only person on Venus who remembers how the sun looks and feels, due to the fact that on Venus, the sun only comes up for two hours every seven years. An important theme built from this fact that Bradbury emphasizes is jealousy and its effects on human conduct, which is greatly supported by certain events in the story and can easily be implemented into daily life. There are two main reasons for why the classmates are jealous of Margot. First,

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