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All Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury
Benjamin Disraeli was a writer and two-time Prime Minister of the UK once said, “Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.” In the short story, “All Summer in a Day,” by Ray Bradbury, bullying is at the heart of the story. The children in Margot’s class bully Margot for being different and remembering the sun. An example of bullying is when the class accuses Margot of lying. The children asked Margot about the sun and she described the sun “...like a fire...in the stove.” However, the children accused her of lying saying, “You’re lying, you don’t remember.” Furthermore, the children bullied Margot because she was different. Margot didn’t play tag or participate in activities with the other children. She did not sing songs about “happiness and

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