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Bradbury pays an extraordinary amount of attention to physical beauty, familial ties, and American History, in The Martian Chronicles. Many of its stories were written to stand alone. Through the span of the book, the readers are able to visualize a cause and effect theme and foresee a relative connection and bond with each individual section of the book, as the storyline progress. The book is a fictional account of the colonization of Mars, while pondering the question if humanity is ready to frontier Mars or ready to approach other lifeforms. NASA repeatedly sends teams to explore; finally, one of them is successful. What follows is a rampant settlement, much like Westward Expansion in American History. Although, some are looking for escape from civilization, however the government wants to expand American civilization to Mar for their benefit. Besides the warning against …show more content…
Often in the early beginning of the new world people immigrated to a different location, to avoid living in a society that is ruled by selfish thugs. Everyone who ventured off to Mars, had their own personal ideals, From this quote, not only it foreshadows the government's intention upon settling Mars, but we are able to since the pioneers thought of the expedition; predicting that have been deceived. Throughout History, many people were deceived into coming to the U.S. territory thinking they will able to make a better living of once they just had. In the both the 20th century, largely immigrants, from areas like Southern and Eastern Europe, went to Western America to in hope to make a better living of the once that they had before. However, they were deceived into working in a harsh environment and laboring in a different form of slavery under a big corporations. Companies, hired and imported immigrants, as an act of wage slavery to get efficient and cheap

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