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Jealousy In All Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury

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The emotion of feeling jealous is like a tiger hunting its prey, very stealth and then out of nowhere. attacks. Jealousy can be shown in many ways whether it be the animal kingdom, the classroom, or even social class. “All Summer in a Day'' by Ray Bradbury is about a girl, Margot, this short story takes place on Venus where the sun can only be seen every 7 years. Margot remembers the sun from Earth, and when she told the other kids she remembers the sun, they didn’t believe her. So they bullied her because they were jealous. This was the same year the sun was going to peek through the rain and show itself, so naturally Margot and the kids were excited, but they still didn’t believe her. Right before the sun was going to shine, the kids locked her in a closet and …show more content…

Mine is not a sham. It was worth five hundred francs at the most!”” (6). In the last stretch of the short story, Mathilde Loisel tells Madame Forestier what happened. In the beginning of the short story, Mathilde Loisel was jealous of other women in the social class. She wanted more, she wanted more wealth. Now after getting what she wanted for a singular night, everything went awry. Mathilde Loisel and her husband lost everything. They had to work for 10 hard years to pay off the $36,000 necklace to buy Madame Forestier a new one. Now karma came for Mathilde Loisel. After wanting more, as in money, to now just make it by so she can repay someone, Mathilde Loisle learned her lesson. She learned that she should be grateful for what she had because she now doesn't even have that. She changed from being jealous to contempt. Mathilde Loisel learned a hash lesson. Having a desire for something might just mean being jealous. Even though both “All Summer in a Day” and “The Necklace” show a theme of jealousy, the difference is the way they show jealousy in the short stories. In “All Summer in a Day” jealousy is shown through the actions and reactions of the children and their

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