Some people may say that they fear spiders or maybe snakes, but those are the people who haven't found what we should fear the most; isolation. In the story "All Summer in a Day" Margot has faced this miserable problem.
One of her problems it being disliked by so many people in her class. If I was a person who had people rolling their eyes at me and using nonverbal communications I would feel horrible! I think that Ray Bradbury did an amazing job with this piece of writing. He captured a lot of emotion and put so much feeling into the characters.
His story gave me the idea of a story that I heard the other day when I heard a story relating to the isolation and loneliness that Margot had. The story was about how scientists put one monkey in a room all by there self giving shelter, food and warmth. They wanted to see how the monkey would adapt to being by there self. The monkey was never held once. The monkey went to the corner of the room and didn't eat and starved and almost died.
The reason why the scientist did this is because it's scary to never be loved, or talked to. And that people can go insane or commit suicide because of this. How this came together with the story is because Margot felt so alone and everyone made fun of her because she was different and didn't fit in they put her in a closet and locked it. Finally, the kids went to open the door and they noticed it was silent. They opened the door even more slowly and let Margot out. After reading this I thought Margot killed herself because she felt so isolated.
Margot is not a real character, but there are people in the world that go through this and that is a crime. The story teaches us what to fear; the fear of being isolated. Just one person is all anyone needs. If we don't have that one person we will be lost, clueless and then become insane, and perhaps … take your own life.
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