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.

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.

Ray Bradbury’s character’s form a society on Mars similar to that of Earth in that politics

“ To enter out into that silence that was the city at eight o’clock of a misty evening in November, to put your feet upon that buckling concrete walk, to step over grassy seams and make your way , hands in pockets, through the silences, that was what Mr. Leonard Mead most dearly loved to do.” Using the description of setting, such as the misty evening and the sensory details, Bradbury shows Mr. Mead does not always stay inside like others. “... The cottages and homes with their dark windows.” helps give details about how others houses look. “The cement was vanishing under flowers and grass.” Bradbury uses details of the setting to show the only one who has walked over this area in a while is Mr.Mead.

Martian Chronicles . That is was jump started his writing career. Bradbury is known for

More allusions are used by Bradbury to show Bradbury’s message, the importance and power of knowledge and literature. Beatty states an allusion by Sir Philip Sidney “Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.” This is relevant to the story because words are precious. If one understands and reads books to find the meaning of them then words are not just words but they are “sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.” Those words being read have meaning and do something for who is reading them. The knowledge and literature held by those words give power and

In attempt to build new societies in both The Lathe of Heaven and in The Martian Chronicles, the human's original intentions were not carried out; in that, greed constantly intervened in the creation of a peaceful and tranquil society. Dr. Haber from The Lathe of Heaven had good intentions at first. For example, he wanted to assist with issues such as overpopulation and hunger; however, he also wanted to benefit himself. Dr. Haber’s greed is what eventually led to the further destruction of society. Similarly to Dr. Haber, the humans in The Martian Chronicles had sound purpose at first. Ater their society on Earth fell apart, the humans attempted to create a new one on Mars. Much like in The Lathe of Heaven, the humans grew to want more and

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

Ray Bradbury’s stories have a different meaning if you read between the lines. Like most writers his stories consist of a hidden meaning about different

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.

Another way Bradbury highlights the flaws of humanity is through the way he contrasts the Martians with Humans. In the beginning of the book he shows Mars as a gleaming, pristine society. Martian society has flawed elements like Earth. They have mentally ill, violent crime, and social outcasts like humans. But as a whole they are respectful to their environment prosperous and an idealyc utopian society. He then contrast the sharply a couple stories later with the beginning of the evils of humanity. On captain Wilder’s mission the crew land on Mars and

During the period after the Industrial Revolution the rich Western nations of the world began their imperialist expansion, racing to colonize any “unclaimed” territories. All of the colonized regions had their own culture and government, but because the West was so much stronger, they were taken over. When these areas were finally freed from years of oppression, their society was left in shambles and much of their culture was destroyed. Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles explores this theme of imperial expansion as applied to the hypothetical situation of humans colonizing the planet Mars. In the novel, the humans who flock to the planet are portrayed as reckless beings with no care for their new home. They destroy ruins, clear the

The word choices in the passage contrast each other with opposite tones. Bradbury chooses to use words

In the beginning of the passage, Bradbury uses mainly personification, simile, and metaphor to introduce the setting as well as give the readers a glimpse of who the main character, Douglas Spaulding, might be. The author also uses other literary terms to emphasize the description of the scenery. For example, he uses personification to say "the wind had the proper touch" meaning the wind wasn't too strong or too soft. He was adding character to an inanimate object by saying it had the perfect speed. Additionally, the author uses personification, once again, along with polysyndeton to emphasize that the world was almost in sync by writing "the breathing of the world was long and warm and slow." Bradbury also uses polysyndeton to make it seem the list is longer than it actually is. He uses the metaphor "when the trees washed together" to compare the sound of the leaves to the sound of running water. Later in that same sentence, the author uses the simile "his gaze like a beacon" to compare the little boy's gaze out the window to the light from a lighthouse.

     Another theme Bradbury uses to gain the reader's attention is time travel. In his tenth story in The Martian Chronicles, 'Night Meeting';, Bradbury uses time travel to convey more of his ideas of Mars. 'There was a smell of Time in the air tonight. He smiled and turned the fancy in his mind. There was a thought. What did Time smell like? Like dust and clocks and people?'; Bradbury uses all of man's senses to express his feelings of what exactly Time is. By doing so, the reader has a clearer understanding of Bradbury's point of view. 'He