The Martian Character Analysis

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,

The movie, “The Martian,” by Ridley Scott is about an astronaut who’s trying to survive on an empty and lonely planet. The astronaut surviving on the planet Matt Damon, also known as Mark Watney. After his crew left him because they thought he was dead during a strong storm, Mark finds himself abandoned and lonely on a desolate planet. Mark try’s to send a message back to earth that he is still alive on the empty planet. NASA puts in non-stop work and fights to bring him back home. In the end, he returns back to Earth safely.

“...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.

In the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, Salamanca Tree Hiddle has changed by many internal and external forces. Sal’s attitude before she accepts her mother’s death is very worrisome and angry. For example, Sal talks about being worried about car accidents.

In the book Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, Sal the main character changes due to many external forces.

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.

We assume that our family members care about each other and wants nothing but the best for us, because they are the closes people in our lives. In some cases, this is not always true. Simply because they share the same blood, does not mean they are necessarily in your camp. In the novel, A Patchwork Planet, through Barnaby’s relationship with his family, with the members of Rent-A-Back and with Martine and Pop-Pop, Anne Tyler suggest that people who have your best interest at heart manifest their care through action.

     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 the course of a lifetime, what does it matter?” -Sharon Creech. Remember and cherish life’s little moments. Do what needs to be done now because later people won’t be able to make changes to the past. In the book, Walk Two Moons, Sal goes through things like moving, not feeling emotion, and coping with the death of loved ones.

The Martian The Martian is a novel wrote by Andy Weir. In this novel Andy creates a character named Mark Watney, Mark is a botanist and a crew member of the ares 3 mission. Mark was left on mars by accident. In the opening chapter’s MR. Weir explains how the In the book Mark survives on mars by doing his profession, botany.

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.

What would you do if your mom left you and never came back? Well that’s what happened to sal. Sal is a character in the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. Sal learns to accept her moms lost by looking at phoebe's mom and seeing her sad, when she talk to mrs. cadaver, and when she saw the bus.

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.

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 phrase “Never give up” is used in so many stories like The Other side of the Sky and Cremation of Sam McGee. In the book The Other side of the Sky there is a lot of bravery shown when they are walking for miles and trying to get past the gate. This is an example of never giving up.In Cremation of Sam McGee sam's friend doesn't give up when he is dragging his friend Sam McGee, to be able to cremate him. This is also another example of never giving up because sam’s friend never gave up on Sam McGee and Sam McGee never give up on him and his friend never gave up while trying to cremated Sam