All Summer In A Day Ray Bradbury

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“They surged about her, caught her up and bore her, protesting, and then pleading, and then crying, back into a tunnel, a room, a closet, where they slammed and locked the door.” (Bradbury, 1954). The children on Venus, fueled by their hatred and envy of Margot, locked her in a closet when they tired of her talk of the sun, which they dismissed as lies. The children, each only two years old when coming to Venus, do not remember the sun, nor accept that Margot has seen it. Each time Margot mentions the sun, they would shout that she was being dishonest, and would continue harassing her. Jealousy, caused by the lack of education and experience and surplus of envy and hatred on the children’s part, expressed by harassment, was shown in “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury. The children on Venus dislike Magot because of she claims to have seen the sun, which they have barely seen, living underground on a raining planet; they plainly refuse to believe her, and instead assume that she had lied of her experiences. …show more content…
‘Hey, everyone, let’s put her in a closet before the teacher comes !’” The type of mistreatment being done to margot by her classmates is shown in this quote. Due to their disbelief in Margot’s claims, the children acted harshly towards her. None did look or research to find whether or not Margot was being truthful. They only envied her and her past leading them to act with hostility towards her. They refused to look beyond their hate and attempt to research Margot’s claim, and instead locked her in a closet. Having no knowledge besides what Margot had told them of the sun’s later appearance, they refused to believe her and shoved her in a closet, preventing her from experiencing the seldom-seen