The Martian Chronicals
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Chapter 1
Setting: January 1999 Ohio
Characters: N/A
Events: A rocket descends upon Ohio and creates a temporary summer feel in the winter due to the heat the rocket expelled.
Opinion: I don’t think that a rocket landing would actually melt away all of the snow in January.
Chapter 2
Setting: February 1999 Mars
Characters: Yll, Ylla, Nathaniel York, Pao, Dr. Nile
Events: Ylla a Martian women has a dream that a rocket comes from the third planet from the sun. In this dream a human named Nathaniel York talks to her tells her she is beautiful and takes her away in his ship. This man had blond hair, blue eyes and was light skinned. This was unheard of on mars because Martians had coin like eyes yellow skin and blondish hair. She also has picked up a song that is not in their language; that she does not know where it is from. She tells her husband Yll about these dreams but he becomes worried and thinks she is sick and insists on going to town for entertainment. That night Ylla dreams more about the rocket and Nathaniel and learns where and when the rocket will land. Yll hears her entire dream and plots to keep her away from that area. He tells her that his friend is joining them for dinner and he wants her to be there for it. While they are waiting he informs her that he is going to go hunting while he is out Ylla hears two shots going off and she begins to scream hysterically. She forgets the song that she was singing and no longer has the dreams.
Opinion: The chapter was very depressing it is like the life that could have been versus the life that it is. Ylla could have gone to earth with Nathaniel but instead because of her visions she instead is to live out her life on Mars.
Chapter 3
Setting: August 1999 Mars
Characters: N/A
Events: The Martian race starts receiving telepathic signals from the approaching humans in the rocket. The children are singing nursery rhymes from earth bands play music from Earth and singers are singing in English. This is all puzzling to the Martians because such things are inexistent on Mars.
Opinion: That is pretty freaky that the alien can use telepathy and are receiving all of these earth customs. What is most disturbing though is that they are not aware of who they are getting these readings from leading me to believe that they have little control of their powers.
Chapter 4
Setting: August 1999 Mars
Characters: Captain Williams, Mr. Iii Mr. Xxx, Martians in asylum, little Martian girl, Captain Williams’ crew.
Events: All over Mars children sing earth nursery rhymes, bands play earth tunes and musicians sing earth songs. The next day Captain Williams and his crew arrive on Mars. They go door to door for some kind of recognition for being the first ones to make it from Earth to Mars. To their dismay each person sends them off to another place until the crew reach Mr. Iii’s house. Mr. Iii puts them in what they think is a rest area where they meet many other Martians claiming to be from Earth. As the Captain soon discovers that where they were was an insane asylum and that Mr. Iii believes that he is crazy and that the crew is just a telepathic hallucination of his. Mr. Xxx, some sort of psychologist inspects the rocket thoroughly and says that the hallucinations are the most real he has ever seen. Then he kills the captain expecting that the crew and rocket would disappear. When they remained he came to the conclusion that he was now insane as well. With that he killed the crew and then himself.
Opinion: This was proof that a lot of the Martians had little control of their powers. The Martians in the Asylum spoke of earth so that leads the readers to believe that the telepathy that they were receiving from the crew had driven them insane. It is sad that the crew died the way they did all because of misunderstandings of two completely different societies.
Chapter 5
Setting: March 2000 Earth
Characters: Pritchard
Events: Pritchard is an American citizen that claims that he should be aloud on the ship to Mars because he is a taxpayer. He wants to leave Earth because of his fear of nuclear war. He is denied by the government and must stay on earth.
Opinion: It is foolish of the government to not let him go since the last