Doesn't it seem unfair when you have something taken away and you won't get it back for seven years? It's a lot easier on the kids that had something and had it taken away at a very young age. Imagine how Margot felt. She had moved from Earth when she was four years old to Venus. On Venus, it rains for seven years without a sun, and then the sun will appear for one hour every seven years. She remembers the sun better than anyone in her class. The rest of her class denies all of her descriptions. On the day the sun was scheduled to come out, the class locked Margot in a closet because they thought she was lying. In a few minutes, the sun came out. The kids forgot about Margot and went to enjoy the sun. Devastated Margot missed the whole thing. Seven more years of waiting here she comes.
I feel that the whole classroom setting is perfect for this type of story. Kids can act very immature and resolve their problems by attacking the person, not the problem. I see a lot of that at elementary schools and when I babysit. When the kids have a problem, the fight about it. If another kid is in their way, they push them. If their sibling is annoying them, they slug them. This just ends up with more suffering for both the child that was hurt and the child that hurt them.
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