“All Summer In A Day”: Selfish And Hateful Of The Human Race

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they despise her. She hates living on Venus and wants to go back to her former life on Earth. Before the sun comes out, the teacher leaves and the children lock Margot in a closet. When the sun comes out, they forget about Margot and go outside to play for the one hour they can spend in the sun. When the sun leaves and the rain returns, they come back inside and remember Margot is still in the closet. They let her out and she leaves in silence.
Margot is a nine-year-old girl who lived in Ohio. When she was four years old her family decided to move to Venus. She hates living there and won’t associate with any of the other children. Margot is a round and static character. She stays the same throughout the whole story. She doesn’t understand why the other children don’t like her and she just wants to go back to Earth. The children in her class are flat and dynamic characters. They are full of hatred towards her because she is different from all of them. They have always ...

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speak like adults. One of the boys says to Margot, “Speak when you are spoken to.” This gives the reader the impression that the children are very intelligent and well educated. The author uses the setting, which is the time and place of the story, and situation, which involves the setting, atmosphere, and circumstances of the story to give the reader a mood, or the feeling a reader gets, of sadness and compassion. “She remembered the sun and the way the sun was and the sky was when she was four in Ohio.” The reader feels sorry for the children because they live such isolated and lonely lives. The narrator’s tone, which is the attitude of the speaker, is one of sadness. When it ...

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