Martian Chronicles Literary Analysis

Frontiersmen have existed throughout America’s history. According to Turner’s hypothesis, they push forwards for civilization and have shaped America. The stories All the Pretty Horses, The Gift of Cochise, and The Martian are all works of frontier literature. Each in their own way show frontiersmen during different times in America’s history with characters that interact with their respective frontiers in different ways. Through these three books one can see how the core interactions between frontiersmen and the frontiers call out the qualities of frontiersmen stated in Turner’s frontier hypothesis.

During the twentieth century American faced the industrial age. Many new inventions came in the making such as the atomic bomb and satellites. America was also faced with the space age and the Cold war, along with racial tensions and religious intolerances. All these events leading up to 1950, inspired Ray Bradbury to write The Martian Chronicles, where Bradbury combined the power struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union with the new rocket technology and space exploration, and created for the readers, the possible outcomes as technology took over the lives of humans. In The Martian Chronicles, Bradbury first started with how the people on Mars lived peacefully with their environment, and allowed technology to better their

Imagine this. Sand pelts at your suit and the glass dome that surrounds your head. Wind whips violently all around, and the air is stale. You crack your eyes open to a dry, barren-land with a chill running down your spine, and only one knowledge comes to mind. You are alone. This is how it would feel to step into Mark Watney’s shoes. Told in a comical and thrilling science fiction novel, “The Martian,” by Andy Weir creates a situation in which Mark Watney, the main character, is accidentally left on Mars due to a violent sandstorm, resulting in NASA having to evacuate their mission early without him. Where Mark is thrust in a situation where he must survive, I believe that when thrown into a situation like so, moping only fails you, and perseverance

Soon Mars could become another livable planet with people walking around on it. Earth is being overpopulated fast and Mars could be the solution. Mars has territory that the Earth needs. Once scientists send a few people and learn about mars we can send more people up to Mars. Eventually mars will be just like Earth, with cities, farms and people roaming around. People going up to mars can build us a new planet.

Conflict: This is where I ran into a little bit of an issue. Technically the main conflict of the story would be man vs. the Martian society or simply man vs. aliens. However I believe there to be a certain element of man vs. himself or his own mind. The earth crew was desperately trying to figure things out, scrambling for ideas and rationales. If they were hypnotized or brain washed the aliens were responsible, but the aliens more than likely fed off feelings and wants that already laid within the minds of the crew. The desire to see them again, the memories and thoughts of the families and friends and what not, but that is just my opinion.

The Martian Chronicles is a novel where earth inhabitants decide to make a new life on Mars. There is a fantasy-like idealism that the people have with Mars, and believe that the planet will create total bliss, but the problem with this is that there are citizens who already created an established life and are unhappy with the new visitors from Earth. In reality, travelling to a new place and expecting it to overwrite everything they’ve ever experienced, can result in unfulfillment.

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

The Martian is arguably one of my favorite books because of the fantastic tone and character development. The Martian follows Mark Watney, a scientist who majored in botany and mechanical science. He get stranded on mars after a dust storm knocks out communications with NASA and the rest of his crew leaves when they believe he is dead from shrapnel in the storm.

Oliver Sacks is a very famous doctor of neurology as well as a writer. He spent most of his adult life treating patients. Oliver Sacks mostly concentrated on disorders of the brain and nervous system. In a lot of the cases that Sacks dealt with, there was nothing he was able to do to heal the patients. His goal was to find a way to live with and accept their condition as well as possible. Sacks enjoyed dealing with cases mostly about experiences of real people struggling to live with unusual conditions. That’s where he wanted to find ways to help these patients to the best of his and medical ability out there. Throughout his cases he studied he came across patients who had different

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

Even Ray’s son Robbie represents the American youth’s patriotism after the attacks wanting to join the military and fight. Adding dialogue as well stating if it was another attack from al-Qaeda. Steven Spielberg uses these Martians to represent Terrorists but instead of being outsiders from another country he uses the outsiders from another

There are many themes that are presented in the movie, known as The Martian. One such theme that is presented in the movie, isolation. The human mind is a truly powerful thing that requires constant stimulation as it is inherent to its biological design. If an individual does not receive the necessary activity, the mind will begin to try and fill the void, going as far as triggering people to hallucinate and suffering many damaging psychological effects. Mark Watney in The Martian, is portrayed to such an effect by actor, Matt Damon, showing the main character’s desperation and the mental anguish that humans experience due to prolonged exposure to isolation and lack of human interaction.

The differences between The Martian, by Andy Weir, and Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, are often straightforward. However, with more attention to detail and analysis, the similarities become quite pronounced as well.

Edgar Allan Poe is undoubtedly one of American Literature's legendary and prolific writers, and it is normal to say that his works touched on many aspects of the human psyche and personality. While he was no psychologist, he wrote about things that could evoke the reasons behind every person's character, whether flawed or not. Some would say his works are of the horror genre, succeeding in frightening his audience into trying to finish reading the book in one sitting, but making them think beyond the story and analyze it through imagery. The "Fall of the House of Usher" is one such tale that uses such frightening imagery that one can only sigh in relief that it is just a work of fiction. However, based on the biography of Poe, events