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In Ray Bradbury’s All Summer in a day we meet a melancholy girl named Margot, the faded Margot lives on the ever so rainy and drizzly planet that only experiences the sun every 7 years. In this soggy world Margot attends school where she is treated badly by her other classmates for her secret(that she’s seen the sun before), one of the kids whose name is William shoves her, makes fun of her, and calls her a liar. When it was almost time for them to see the sun the kids locked Margot in a closet, but after the kids had experienced the sun they realized how amazing it is and how important it was. In the end they felt bad because they had done something so cruel.

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