Jealousy In Ray Bradbury's All In A Summer Day

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Have you ever been jealous and lashed out? Think again, maybe you shouldn’t. In Ray Bradbury’s “All in a summer day” the theme is jealousy because sometimes it can drive you to some crazy things like bullying, not believing, and pushing people into closets then isolating her in the closet. In the first paragraph is going to explain how the kids are bullying Margot. In my second paragraph it will show how the kids don’t believe Margot. In the last paragraph it will explain why the jealousy drove the kids into isolating Margot inside of the closet.

The first way that jealousy is shown in the story is that Margot gets bullied with hateful comments. On the first page one of the boys says “Aw you didn’t write that!.” One reason that this was

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