If anything this suggests that Margot’s peers are unable to accept someone who is different to them. This may be significant as it not only symbolizes jealously and isolation but it also highlights that the children in the class do not like Margot because she is different. In fact so jealous of Margot are her peers that they lock her in the closet so that she will not see the sun when it appears. She would no longer be bullied or isolated from her peers. Despite it being easier for her if she did pretend that she could not remember the sun. She is stubborn and proud enough to not change her mind. What is also interesting about Margot is the fact she will not change her mind. This causes a lot of jealousy among her class mates who end up bullying Margot and isolating her from class activities. She lived on Earth before her family moved to Venus and unlike the other children she still remembers the sun clearly. Margot is the only person in her class who can remember seeing the sun. Narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator the reader realizes after reading the story the Bradbury may be exploring the theme of jealousy. In All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury we have the theme of jealousy, bullying, isolation, colonization, acceptance and pride.
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