In All Summers in Day, how did the Venus children deal with a person who is different from the rest? Can we learn anything from the behavior of these children? What positive character traits do they lack? What mistakes does Margot seem to make? Give her some advice on how to fit in. What are the most valued and the most challenging character traits for students?
The children ostracised her by not only not including her in their group of friends, but also did mean things to her like locking her in the cupboard and criticising her everytime she mentioned the sun, which only she among all the children had seen before. We can see from their behaviour that people are generally very intolerant of others who are different from them, and mixed with strong feelings of jealousy, this can result in severe bullying. It can be seen that they lack a sense of acceptance towards others who come from different backgrounds, and are intolerant of those who have different opinions from them. They also lack the compassion to stop tormenting Margot despite the fact that they can see the suffering she is going through. However, all this is somewhat provoked by Margot herself, as she always talks about the sun, and all the good things about it, which tends to enrage the other children and make them jealous because they have not had a chance to see the sun, unlike her. In order to fit in, she could try to engage with them more, and not mention the sun that much, which is a sensitive topic for many of them. I feel the most challenging character traits for students to attain are honesty, which involves resisting the tempation to cheat or copy from others, tolerance for others, which involves not bullying schoolmates who are different in some way, and self-control, to manage their time properly to get their work done
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