Summary: The Martian Chronicles

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.

The aboriginal tribes didn’t have that. On the other hand both groups had the advantage of knowledge on their side. After the invasions there were wars that caused so many to die but the actual war on Pandora took much less time than fights between the Aboriginals and Europeans. In addition the Europeans took the aboriginal children away from their families while the “sky people” tried to blend in with the Na’vi. Parker Selfridge stated in Avatar, “Look. You 're supposed to be winning the hearts and minds of the natives. Isn 't that the whole point of your little puppet show? If you walk like them, you talk like them, they 'll trust you. We build them a school, teach them English. But after - how many years - the relations with the indigenous are only getting worse.” This sentence is about the Westerners reaction to the invasion. It is about how the Westerners are trying to blend in. what they want most is the Unobtanium and are prepared to do anything to get it as Selfridge says in this statement : “Killing the indigenous looks bad, but there’s one thing shareholders hate more than bad press -- and that’s a bad quarterly statement.” They are more worried about money rather than the lives of others.

The authors bias opinions are backed up with facts and states that ¨Many of the worst abuses-of land, forests, animals, and communities-have been carried out by ´people who root themselves in ideas rather than opinions´.¨ As a result, he has effectively build his argument to state the migration of individuals can harm rather than subdue our environment. The author, then goes into Rushdie claim that ¨Migrants must, of necessity, make a new imaginative relationship with the world, because of the loss of familiar habitats.¨ This counterexample, in response to Rushdie claim through syntax and backing up his own previous statement, allows the reader to ponder on how can we create a new relationship with the environment, when we keep moving to new territory and doing the same actions there. Hence, why the author gave a prime example of the ¨Dust Bowl¨ and the ¨Spaniards moving into the New World.¨ Plus, the bringing up of the diseases brought by the colonist, shows that the author has thoroughly contemplated on the topics of humanity and our actions.

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.

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

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

Forming a society on an inhospitable, deserted, and entirely hostile planet was far from being an easy goal. Everyone presented their plan to colonize Mars, but no one had a perfect plan. There was always a spot where a difference was notable, such as the decision of bringing frozen human embryos. The Martian, a movie that was about surviving the Red Planet, also showed notable unique features in the habitat. However, by analyzing the differences of these colonies, combining ideas could have lead to a very efficient colony. Thus, Mars could have been the start of human expansion throughout the solar system.

Once voyages to North America became profitable, European nations looked to capitalize in any way possible. The nations really had to sell the idea of starting a new life from scratch thousands of miles away to their constituents. This was not easy as the voyage in it of itself could be deadly, not to mention the only thing guaranteed in return was an allocation of land and a chance at earning large sums of money. The difficult nature of recruitment often led to deliberately bias accounts of North American lands (Cronon 1983). The bias accounts often amounted to over hyping the abundance of resources in the mysterious “New World.” Not only did this lead to ultimately more colonizers making the voyage, but it also influenced their mindset and interactions with the natural world upon their arrival. The influence of bias accounts led to environmentally disconnected practices.

When European colonists set foot in the so-called “New World” they brought with them a plethora of non-human colonists whose arrival would have significant impacts on the territories and inhabitants of the newly discovered lands, be they intentional or accidental. Some of these non-human colonists and their effects are well known :

     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.

Change is something unavoidable but needed to adapt to one's surroundings. In The Martian Chronicles, It is said “But one day Earth will be as Mars is today. This will sober us. It's an object lesson in civilizations.” ("—And the Moon Be Still as Bright," 81).

Humans have a tendency of going places they don’t belong but going to another planet is a whole different story. Paragraph 15 from the short story, “Dark They Were, and Golden eyed” by Ray Bradbury, states, “We don’t belong here. We’re Earth people. This is Mars. It was meant for Martians.”

Evidence:”Within the five mile circle even the great majority of people were inert”. That means even the people who were the closest to the Martians they still carried on with their daily life. That actually shows us that ‘Social Order’ did not change. The word ‘inert’ is in fact very clever thought off because the word itself means that something does not react to something else and this is shown in the Novel by the populace not responding to the Martians and carrying on with their normal life. H.G. Wells could think about this word because he was a biology teacher and the word ‘inert’ is a scientific word.

The book The Martian is a science fiction novel written by Andy Weir. In The Martian, Andy Weir creates an unlikely event where a man Mark Watney must outwit the normal standards of living and survive on the planet Mars. The Martian was published in 2011 and contains 369 pages. The Martian is a stand alone book that gained worldwide popularity due to the rigorous adventures of survival Mark Watney needed to persevere. Andy Weir has been writing novels and comics since the beginning of 2001 but his popularity shot thru the roof when his first book, The Martian, was published (Johnson).