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Princess Of Mars

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In the novel A Princess of Mars, I will be responding to Burroughs’s characterization of the green Martians in the novel A Princess of Mars which caught my interest for some reason. John Carter; the hero in this story, first meets these enormously tall green creatures when he first awakens on Mars after being transported there from the cave. The green Martians are fifteen feet tall and have six legs; two arms and two legs. John Carter calls them, “hideous little monsters” (15). Burroughs’s describes them with scrawny bodies and long necks. As Burroughs says in the novel, “There was no hair on their bodies, which were of a very light yellowish-green color. In the adults, as I was to learn quite soon, this color deepens to an olive green

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