Standing there in gym watching everyone plays basketball and someone passes you the ball. You dodge it and move out of the way and let the ball bounce pass you. By doing that not only did you exclude yourself from the game but you also excluded yourself from the world.
Isolation may just seem to be a word but it is much more. It could mean death or insanity. By isolating ourselves from other people, friendship, games, and yourself you destroy parts of yourself. You need friendship and people to talk to and without that you could just whither away and no one would notice or even care. The people that we see and meet are a vital part of our lives whether we think so or if we don’t. In the short story Margot is already partially insane from leaving the Earth into no sun but her not opening up to other people makes everything worse and her peers hate her for that. People don’t necessarily distain isolated people but they aren’t friendly towards them. By opening up and becoming friends saves you from isolation and helps you become a better person. In All Summer in a Day Margot doesn’t sing songs about anything but the sun which shows the children that she doesn’t care about anything but the sun.
From being isolated you miss the one thing that you live for. That you want everyday and have to wait for just for being isolating yourself. Eventually your own world disappears.
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