Essays on The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois and passed away on June 5, 2012 at the age of 91. Bradbury wrote novels and short stories using themes of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Bradbury also used these themes when writing screenplays and treatments for television and film. His most famous novel...
Bradbury grew up in Waukegan, Illinois and when he was a kid, along with his dad, he would hang around the fire station. Later on, he had heard about book burnings occurring in Germany, Russia and China, and the stories of the great libraries of Alexandria being destroyed by flames over 2,000 years ago. Bradbury...
Have you ever cried over books when you read them? Have you worried about heroes the way you don’t even worry about yourself? Has it ever happened that you were worried so much as you had never been worried before in your life? Reading books by Ray Bradbury, one involuntarily wonders at what your body...
In Ray Bradbury’s science fiction novel, The Martian Chronicles, isolation is the worst mental state you can be in when you’re the last man on Mars. In the chapter, The Silent Towns, we read about a man named Walter Gripp run happily around his town, Marlin Village. Then one night, he understands how lonely he...
