Starting All Over
Ray Bradbury's the Martian Chronicles is a futuristic story about space travel, invasion and planet colonization. Analyzing characters in this twenty-eight-chapter novel is extremely difficult because every chapter includes different characters, which are oriented to form the plot. Each chapter's characters are used to show the founding of the planet Mars, the colonization of it, the destruction of Earth and almost the whole human race, and finally the rebuilding of the human civilization on Mars. The story starts off in the year of 1999 and ends twenty-seven years later in 2026. Ray Bradbury doesn't just tell his story from the point of view of the space travelers and the colonizers, but from angry Martians who were trying to kill the humans or Martians later on who were just having a conversation with a human about Mars, also people seeing the great colonial change happen. Captain Wilder was the captain of the fourth expedition to Mars from Earth. The three expeditions before had failed because either the Martians tricked and killed the earthlings or the earth people were thought of as mentally ill and sent to a hospital on Mars. Later on in the story when
Captain Wilder and his crew, Mr. Hathaway and his family, two other people left who did not go back to Earth and another family were the only people left on Mars. They were in charge of rebuilding the human race on Mars because the Earth was being destroyed in a twenty-year world war. Human civilization was starting all over again. This book is not just like the popular science fiction theme of planet colonization, but it is told in a new-fashioned way, through the eyes of many different people. The story was very enjoyable to read because of its differentness. I admire the way Ray Bradbury very creatively tied each chapter with different characters together. The only thing I would change would be to add a larger connection between the fourth expedition characters in the beginning of the book to those in the end when they are rebuilding the human race. Otherwise this book is an innovative piece of art and I recommend it to anyone seeking a different type of science fiction book to read. After this mission was complete, Captain Wilder was sent with his crew to Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune for exploring. "I heard they had kicked you upstairs so you wouldn't interfere with colonial policy here on Mars," exclaimed Mr. Hathaway in 2026 after meeting up again with Captain Wilder. Capta
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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