The Martian Character Analysis

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)

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,

Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” touches on many issues African Americans faced in the early to mid-twentieth century. One can analyze Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” from many angles, and come away with different meanings. While Michelle Gordon focuses more on segregation and housing discrimination that plagued African Americans on Chicago’s Southside in Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun”, William Murray emphasizes on Southern Pride and heritage. This paper will show contrasting views from Murray and Gordon in their critique of

While Watchman and Raisin come from different backgrounds they are similar because they take place during the same time period that deals with gender roles and family. During this time in the 1950’s it was not usual for the women to stay home and the men be the head of the house. Although when times were rough family is always there for support.

Have you ever read a book and watched the movie of it after and had that moment when

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.

It starts of with stories of men from Earth trying to come to Mars. All of the men in the first three expeditions were killed by Martians with the help of their powers of telepathy and hallucinations. In the fourth expedition, the men found out that even though their men were killed, most of the Martian population was killed from chicken pox brought from Earth. A man named named Spender was upset with this news. He feared that if humans start settling in Mars, not only will the Martian race disappear but their beautiful culture with disappear also.

     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.

Someone once said, “Find the courage to let go of what you can't change.” This is true for Sal Throughout, Walk Two Moons, because she had lots of changes in her life that’s hard for her to let go. For example, she had to let go of her mother's death, but it was challenging because she loved her mother a lot. She also had to let go of her grandma which was also very challenging. In the book Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech, external forces significantly change Sal’s life.

In A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, the Younger family is trying to achieve the American Dream, which is “the ideals of freedom, equality, and opportunity traditionally held to be available to every American”(cite dictionary.com). The Youngers are a black family living in a poor part of Chicago. They inherit ten thousand dollars because Mama’s husband died. Mama is the matriarch of the Younger family. Each family member has their own idea about how to use this money to fulfill their dreams, and the play uses the decisions of the family members and other characters to show the reader that people’s actions are not always motivated by what they appear to be. Mama wants to use the money to buy a house in a white neighborhood, because she thinks it is a better environment for her family than their current living conditions and will benefit her family. Although there are a number of people in A Raisin in the Sun who appear too want to help the Younger family, Mama shows through her decision to buy the house that she is the only person that is looking out for the best interests of her family.