Perfection Exposed In Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles

After reading a book and watching a movie, I realized humans think we are kings of the world, that our hold on this planet is eternal. But it's not true. There are many catastrophes, man-made and otherwise, that could befall us and wipe us from the face of the Earth.  The Earth would eventually recover.  Humans won't get that chance.  One of the lessons of The Road is that we need to protect both our environment and our sense of

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

He continues that while authority figures will not go out of their way to the government with a peace treaty, the perspective of viewing Earth 100,000 miles away will “plant a seed that ultimately could grow into such concrete action.” Viewing the Earth, however, will not erase the borders that separate us. We are aware of the pollution we cause and we know of the problems; “but it must be seen to make an indelible impression, to produce an emotional impact that makes one argue for long-term virtues at the expense of short-term gains.” (Source G) In other words, we have to see it to believe it. Viewing Earth from space gives a whole new vantage point and outlook on our home. Observing the obscured land from layers of tropospheric ozone provokes a sense of desire to make a change. McLean argues that we ought to ponder the ethics in the exploitation of space resources, while also considering the anthropogenic damage humans have caused by their presence on Earth. We should assume responsibility for our actions that affect “others, the universe, and the future,” before even considering exploring the frontier of space exploration. (Source

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.

Last quarter I took a class called Psychology of Gender that I really enjoyed. The topics that we discussed were all very interesting and had me wanting to go to every class for engaging discussions. We were put into groups at the very beginning of the quarter. We had the same group throughout the entire quarter, with these groups we lead class discussions and presented our final presentations. The final assignment for this class was for each group to choose a film and watch it. While watching the film we were to look and see if we could identify any particular discourses about gender that the film, intentionally or unintentionally, displayed. We were tasked with looking back at some of the ideas we had discussed in class, some of which

Over the time their species has existed, humans haven’t changed. They have had the same greedy nature. They have repeated their behavior, history, and mistakes for thousands of years. Throughout The Martian Chronicles, Bradbury uses characters and events to express how humans don’t change in their repetition of behavior, history and mistakes.

In the book of short stories, The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury portrays the theme of loneliness quite often. These stories are all about America going to and from Mars several times, so families get split up, friends have to leave each other, and people die so loneliness is unavoidable. There are several moments when characters talk about being lonely or feeling lonely but I’m only going to touch on the subject. One moment is where a man wants to get on a rocket to Mars but is not allowed to. Another is when a group of the Lonely Ones leaves Earth.

The Effects of Imperialism: Implications in the Martian Chronicles Its January 1999, wintertime in Ohio, America! The story of the American’s attempt to conquer the great frontier of Mars begins. Ray Bradbury’s novel, The Martian Chronicles is delightfully broken into fragments of chronological order instead of chapters. I believe Bradbury chose this method of distinguishing time and events in an attempt to tell a tale of a future history similar to the way of modern history books that we study as children. In my opinion The Martian Chronicles is a novel reflective of American imperialism, and its effects on the conquerors and the conquered.

In the book The Martian, an astronaut named Mark Watney is thrown into an awful situation on Mars. A sandstorm had come in while they were landing the Ares 3. The crew needed to get out of this trouble. When trying to get back to safety, Mark is hit by debris and is not able to find his crew. His crew all successfully got back to the Mars ascent vehicle but Mark. The crew is taught to never leave a man behind. They search for him but the sandstorm created low visibility. They see that Mark's suit is damaged and he going to die. They are forced to abandon Mark on Mars. Throughout the book, Mark, NASA, and Mark's crew show no sign of giving up, and their tenacity to never quit even when obstacles are thrown their way.

Ray Bradbury’s creation of short stories in The Martian Chronicles illustrates that humans have acted in unjust ways and have lost respect for one another. The book demonstrates how humans have been corrupted by the difference each other and the way of life they choose to live for. Ray Bradbury’s short stories “Way in the Middle of the Air”,“Night Meeting”, “:The Million Dollar Picnic” and “The Luggage Store” identifies how the human race is unable of dealing with the past and concerns of one another, in a rational manner that is acceptable for society and humanity. We cannot think past our own selfish motives. To begin, when Ray Bradbury’s book, The Martian Chronicles, was published when the United States where in a time of crisis, dealing with nuclear threats and war.

Throughout Ray Bradbury´s Martian Chronicles, we get a taste of a utopian and dystopian fiction. I believe Ray was trying to convey that rampant colonization kills the society and environment of the victim. Through every story we can see how bad Mars is turning out due to the ignorance and quickness of the colonizers. There is speculation that Ray could be describing the future in a ¨fictional¨ way, in other words, he could be predicting the fate of the earth or America. I also believe that after the four expeditions the settlers were still driven to colonize even though the previous trips failed. I come to believe that Ray thinks all these dreams and visions the martians have, is what will happen to us in America. It could all be fiction but his

Book The Martian is a novel about NASA astronaut Mark Watney, a botanist and mechanical engineer, who has been left stranded by his crew of the Ares 3 mission after they were forced to evacuate the red planet due to an intense dust storm and high winds. The main character – Mark Watney – is probably the most interesting of them all. What is so interesting about him is that he is a botanist and mechanical engineer, and how he uses these skills to survive on a planet with no food - just the man-made base built on Mars and the tools inside it. Another interesting character is the young NASA engineer who is getting very bored with her job, and even wants to quit sometimes, Mindy Park.

Human-beings have made the grave mistake of confusing order for sameness and sameness as the seed of progression. Most of mankind has a toxic ideology of progression, they believe in order to advance everyone must abide by the same set of laws, use the same technology, and most importantly share the same vision of the future. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury reveals just how far the human race will go in order to move the future in the same direction. Bradbury perfectly documented how human endeavors to mars might unfold assuming it was populated, and how overtime Humans might spoil the planet and its culture; He does this through a series of chronological narratives. The novel conveys many ideas, but the most important is how easily

     If the Martian Chronicles had been written in the 1999’s instead of fifty years ago, many issues and problems would change. Ray Bradbury wrote his book in 1946. In it he wrote about problems such as censorship, man’s cruelty to man, and loneliness. Each issue shows up in one or two of his chronicles. All of his issues affect every one of his characters in many different ways.

Science fiction has always been the genre that asks the “how” questions, rather than “who” or “what”. How will society react to new technologies or to new species? How will humanity adapt to wars that devastate the planet? In science fiction, the focus is almost never on what a new technology does, or how it works, or the aliens we stole it from. Those are details that only considered in passing, while the true focus remains on how we, as a species, react, change, and grow in the face of those new challenges. These studies into human response are not pure speculation, either. They are based on how societies have adapted in the past and can be used to reflect how humanity will continue to react in the future. The novels and films we have studied throughout