The Martian Character Analysis

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 Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury displays a variety of themes that relate to topics such as isolation, loneliness, and isolations. A quote that accurately portrays the theme of man vs. the natural world comes from the chapter And The Moon Be Still As Bright. The quote is as follows: “We Earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.” (Bradbury 77)

Tension, humor, and foreshadowing are some examples of elements that readers will find in The Martian. In The Martian, astronaut Mark Watney is left behind on Mars. Because of a dust storm, Mark's teammates believe that he is dead and left him behind. The Martian is a science fiction book that gives readers an idea of how people might be able to colonize Mars and gives readers an idea of what space is like. The Martian has an author that self-published his book, and who used humor and foreshadowing to keep his readers engaged.

Ray Bradbury was an American author born on August 22, 1920 who died on June 5, 2012 at the age of 91. Bradbury was a prolific and beloved writer who wrote many novels considered today to be staples of the science fiction genre such as Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and The Martian Chronicles (www.biography.com). The Martian Chronicles is a collection of short stories Bradbury wrote over several years detailing the colonization of mars by humans. Present in this collection of stories are a number of themes portraying the weaknesses of mankind. In these stories are tales of corporate greed, mental illness, religious zealotry, gullible ignorance,

“...my father plucked me up like a weed and took me and all my belongings…(Creech 1).” Conflict can help a person grow throughout a journey, it can help them grow internally and externally throughout it. In Walk Two Moons, the character ,Sal, grows throughout the journey from sad to excited, or hopeful to feeling guilty.

How would you feel if your mother left you and never came back? Then again, how would you feel if your father took you with him out of the blue and moved to a place you were unfamiliar with? Well, those are are only some of the many unfortunate events that occur in Sals life, a young 13 year old girl whose story is littered with internal and external conflicts that she must overcome and accept. In the novel Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech, many internal and external forces affect and change the way Sal thinks, feels, and acts.

     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

In 2035, NASA astronaut Mark Watney, a botanist and mechanical engineer, has been left stuck on Mars after the crew of the Ares 3 mission were forced to evacuate from their Martian habitat (in Acidalia Planitia due to an intense dust storm with high winds. Watney was impaled by satellite dish during the evacuation and believed dead. His injury are minor, but with no way to contact Earth, Watney must rely on his own skills to survive. He begins a log of his experiences for those who might discover it long after his death. Watney begins growing potatoes in the crew's Martian habitat (or Hab) and burns hydrazine to make water. NASA discovers that he is alive when satellite images of the landing site show evidence of his activities; they begin working on ways to rescue him, but withhold the news of his survival from the rest of the Ares III crew, on their way back to Earth aboard the Hermes spacecraft, so as not to distract them.

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

Mark has to find a way to communicate with NASA with outdated technology, while also not starving to death. Watney has to learn how to farm food on a planet that has no water or bacteria in it’s soil, which completely inhibits plant growth. While I want to give further examples of Mark’s problems, I also do not wish to spoil any of the book, because I feel that everyone should read it. One of the recurring themes in this novel is that perseverance is essential for success. Mark continually uses humor as a way to distract him from the hopelessness of his situation saying things such as “They say no plan survives first contact with implementation.

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.

In 1940 a black man was lynched by whites for not addressing a white man as “sir”. In 1942 President Roosevelt sent Japanese-Americans away to camps because of racial prejudice from whites. In 1943 white mobs went around beating Latinos in America. In 1950 Ray Bradbury wrote Martian Chronicles, a book where humans migrate to Mars with no warm welcome from martians. Bradbury wrote his novel during the 1940’s a time where racism was no stranger. Racial injustice was happening left and right in America, which seemed to have influenced his writing. In The Martian Chronicles humans went to Mars to explore it. Eventually they found out that Mars was suitable for human life and began to colonize it. When humans first came many of the Martians were uncomfortable around humans. As the story goes on Martians start to take negative action towards the humans since they aren’t of the same kind. Martians and humans had a horrible relationship to start with but over time it improved vastly, just like white people with people of color in the US. White people were the martians while people of color are the humans except white people colonized POC land not vice versa. Ever since America was founded time and time again POC have been used and abused, which could have been the inspiration for the novel. Bradbury wrote the Martian Chronicles during the 1940’s; a time when African Americans were lynched, Japanese American citizens were sent away to camps, and

In the novel walk two moons there is a girl named Sal hiddle. She Is a small average teenager who has a lot of internal conflict, she is scared of things that you wouldn't expect things that scare her like pregnant women , car accidents , cancer, death , brain tumors , nuclear war , loud noises, strict teachers ,scabs and elevator. but even though sal hiddle is scared of all those things she still had lots of adventures with her grandma and grandpa to find her mother by going through amazing places [warning spoiler alert]. like in chapter one when sal's mother left by banks to go to South Dakota because her mother thought she wasn't helpful enough and a let down because in one of the chapters her mother was pregnant but it was

The Martian is an incredible story of astronaut Mark Watney, who was believed dead and stranded on Mars. Through great creativity and ingenuity, NASA was able to rescue him. The Martian shows one man’s determination to survive, but it also portrays that keeping a positive, humorous attitude can make all the difference no matter how difficult the situation. However, more than anything else, this film promotes the idea that anything can be done with enough determination, positivity, and ingenuity.