Five words that have been used to describe the character Margot in Ray Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day" are the following: frail, lost, different, pale, and thinness.
Margot is a frail girl who, unlike the other children on Venus, has lived on earth and is the only one in her class who has actually seen the sun. And, because she has known a world where it does not rain constantly under a grey sky, she is terribly unhappy. Having once reacted emotionally to this deprivation of sunlight as she refused to enter the shower rooms at school, screaming lest the water touch her, Margot marks herself as different and lost in a world that is not her own. After this incident, there are rumors of her parents' having to send her back to earth.
And so, the children hated her for all these reasons of big and little consequence. They hated her pale snow face, her waiting silence, her thinness, and her possible future....They knew her difference and kept away.
They also hate Margot because of her having seen and experienced what they have never seen, and she has written a beautiful poem about it. Hating her for this privilege over them, one of the boys suggests that nothing is going to happen on this particular day, despite Margot's insistence that the scientists have said the sun is to come out. Nevertheless, Margot persists in her conviction about the sun's appearing. So, the brutish children catch her and shove her into a closet, locking the door.
When the sun does emerge, these cruel children delight in the experience; it is only after the rains return that any one remembers that Margot is locked away, deprived of that which she has so desperately longed to see.
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