All Summer In A Day Ray Bradbury

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“Sorry doesn’t fix everything”
“All summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, is a fictional story about a girl named Margot, who struggles with bullying because she is different from everyone else. Her being from Earth, meanwhile everyone else has been from Venus their entire lives. Throughout the story, it shows Margot as a lonely girl that feels different from everyone else. Margot, being from Earth, knows that the sun is real, huge dandelion in the sky. Whilst nobody else has ever seen the sun, but only rain. However, the other kids that live on Venus along with Margot, start to bully her because they seem jealous, and start to not believe her, nor any scientist that says the sun will come out. They all learn that words can’t fix everything. As they learn this the children from Venus, change throughout the story, and so does Margot. In the beginning, Margot was very homesick and sad because she wanted to live back on Earth and see what meant most to her, the sun. She wanted to go back to Earth with her parents, where it wasn’t always raining. She stayed away from most of the other kids, and they stayed away from her. For instance, in paragraph
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They let their jealousy take them over, and do some crazy things because of it. Apart from the main plot, there really is a deeper meaning to the story. There may even be a few, but the one that I noticed while reading “All Summer in a Day,” was that something that might not mean a lot to you, could mean the world to someone else. Behind all this, Margot changes too. It isn’t like she is just going to blow it off as no big deal. They took away the one thing that made her happy, saying sorry won’t be able to repair the damage they’ve done. Margot, just like a lot of other kids, has been bullied. But what they did to her was beyond

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