Martian Chronicles Chapter Summary

In “The Martian Chronicles”, Bradbury combines rocket technology and space exploration together and imagine undeveloped problems played out in both the Earth and Martian fields. Although the novel treats a series of social and political problems, a visible story bend shows regarding the relationship between civilizations, living in peace with the environment, and carefully manage in technology. In “The Martian Chronicles”, Bradbury moves from the Martians’ peaceful nation with nature and technology through mankind's destructive and self-destructive disregarding from such peaceful to the final understanding that humans must take in the Martian’s ideas in order to survive and become as a civilization.

The Earth’s beautiful green lands and ocean blue water suddenly explode with great booms in bright light. Then, blackness follows, completely enveloping the whole planet, bringing us our last moments of breath, until all is silent and Earth is empty. Bradbury predicts that the Earth will soon be annihilated due to the human race’s heavy dependence on technology. The instruments we use today shines a light on the origin of weapons and how terrifying it can be. With this, engaging in war using technology as a weapon may cause devastating casualties more than ever. Similarly, The Martian Chronicles written by Bradbury illustrates how humans leave Earth because it was destroyed by the war. With the intention of conquering Mars, humans travel a

Imagine a new planet with an atmosphere and people roaming around like it was Earth. Scientists can do that by sending just four people to Mars than adding more as the colonists on Mars make additional progress. Scientists have built technology, like a machine that could take the carbon dioxide on Mars and change it into oxygen so people could breath up there. If they are willing to never come back down to Earth let them go up. Colonizing Mars is a terrific idea so the Earth can use the ice hidden underground, the people on Earth will believe that anything is possible, and the people can live up there.

Dehumanization, the most common of all the trait of a dystopian narrative, and was brilliantly displayed in many segments of Total Recall. The underworld, were the less fortunate lived, worked and played was plagued by over crowed streets, depression and crime bars and brothel’s. This area was extremely impoverished and, it was a detailed dramatization of life on planet Mars. Imagine that the earth was so messed that its inhabitant has packed up and moved to Mars, knowing fully that they have to pay for every breath of they had to breathe. The under ground inhabitants of Mars had been so long deprived of air and penetrated by radiation that many people had developed deformities. Imagine if there is a treasure in the earth’s core and one man had possession of it. Knowing that it’s healing effect once it was found could right all the wrongs or reverse the damage society has done to the earth. Knowing this on thing would restore the earth’s resources.

When the people from Earth attempt to inhabit Mars, they do not think of the citizens who already reside there, “after all, like the Pilgrims, these people came here to escape Earth. Maybe they won’t be too happy to see us. Maybe they’ll try to drive us out or kill us,” (Bradbury, Chapter 5). The people may be trying to escape their personal past, but it is not possible to escape the pasts of others. As they continue to infiltrate Mars, they meet many obstacles and have continuous conflicting actions with the Martians.

Settlers move to innocence to demonstrate the consequences of the “metaphorization” of decolonization used by white settlers. The authors wrote,”

Despite Ray Bradbury’s warning in, The Martian Chronicles, human greed has lead to the destruction of culture. The opposition would claim that the destruction of culture is a natural process, on the other hand, because of human greed the destruction of culture has been drastically sped up. For example, an article from Achieve3000 shows a connection between the erosion of the Easter Island Moais and the longing for people to see them. According to Susana Nahoe, an archaeologist from Chile, “More tourism, more deterioration. More visitors, more loss” (qtd. by Achieve3000 staff). This statement explains that because of the human greed to see the Moais for themselves, they cause harm to the ancient statues. In addition, an article from Newsela

“There is something about a catharsis that is very important.” This is a famous quote by Glenn Close, an American actress. In writing the use of catharsis is to make the reader feel different emotions by what the author is writing about. In the book The Martian, the author Andy Weir, uses catharsis to make the audience feel certain ways for Mark Watney, the main character. In the book Watney gets stranded on Mars all by himself. This itself is a problem but as Mark struggles to stay alive he faces many other problems. Weir uses catharsis in many types of conflicts in the story like person vs. nature, person vs. society, person vs. self and person vs. technology.

cover its shell-paved floor” this simile was used to convey the constant reminder that the Red face people were once vast and abundant in the extensive country, but now their numbers have weakened, it creates a sense of pathos with the audience. It allows the audience to feel empathy for the group and connect with them on an emotional level. The diction used in the quote, “ I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it as we too may have been somewhat to blame” is utilized to develop Seattle’s point that although some may blame the White faces for their untimely demise because of Westward expansion and their slow takeover of the lands, it is not entirely their fault. The Native Americans can be blamed for some of the misfortune as well, the easy route should not always be taken for the simplicity of the route, sometimes taking the blame for the demise of your people, can prevent further disturbance by other people ignited by their annoyance and anger of being blamed for demise.

immediately begin drinking and littering. Biggs even goes so far as to intentionally toss his empty bottles into a martian canal as a pathetic show of dominance over the planet. By the end of the book both societies are

During the period after the Industrial Revolution the rich Western nations of the world began their imperialist expansion, racing to colonize any “unclaimed” territories. All of the colonized regions had their own culture and government, but because the West was so much stronger, they were taken over. When these areas were finally freed from years of oppression, their society was left in shambles and much of their culture was destroyed. Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles explores this theme of imperial expansion as applied to the hypothetical situation of humans colonizing the planet Mars. In the novel, the humans who flock to the planet are portrayed as reckless beings with no care for their new home. They destroy ruins, clear the

-The next part of the hymn (“To Pythian Apollo”) depicts Apollo’s arrival in Greece he roamed until he discovered the place for the creation of his oracle, Cria, at Mt. Parnassus/Parnassos and this is where he constructed his temple.

In The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury there are many differences between humans and martians. One of the biggest ones, aside from the obvious being from different planets, physical appearance, and telepathy is that the humans want everything to do with the martians while the martians want nothing to do with the humans. This is shown by the humans knocking on doors constantly and even just walking into a martians house in “The Earth Men” and by the martians ignoring or even killing the humans before they even interact with them much.

     The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury, is a science-fiction book and was written in 1946. This major work by Bradbury is a collection of short stories relating to Mars or Martians. Bradbury had a clear vision of the Mars in which these stories are set. His vision was one of a fantasy world from the Martians point of view. In this work, the humans from Earth are the aliens from outer space. Bradbury has won many awards including the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the Aviation-Space Writers Association Award, the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement, and the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Bradbury supported his awards

This convinces the reader that cultural conflict if not solved would become a problem for space colonization.