Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles
It has been said that literature is not created in a vacuum, meaning that authors use their personal life experiences and historical time period to influence their literature. It has also been said that,“Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation” (Solzhenitsyn). This states that stories from an author’s time period and personal experience are passed down and retold over and over again causing it to become just like a memory. Therefore, all literature has past ideas, outside experiences, and a historical touch that inspired the story. One example of this would be the author, Ray Bradbury, and his book The Martian Chronicles, in which
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This impacted him greatly as a writer because he finally had the inspiration he needed to write the science fiction novel he had always dreamed about, The Martian Chronicles. He used his view of America and turned it into The Martian Chronicles by creating a whole storyline to demonstrate how humans tend to ruin good things, which is referring to America prior to the Great Depression. “We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things” (Bradbury). But then came another inspirational factor, the United States entered World War II. At this point, there was a giant draft for young men to fight in the war. But fortunately, he was ruled unable for military service due to his vision problems and because of that he was able to pursue his dreams of becoming a writer. But he did utilize the draft in his book, because in The Martian Chronicles, a lot of the issues that arise are due to other trying to oppose their beliefs on everyone else, which is a reflection of the draft. The draft disregarded citizens personal beliefs because regardless of their personal or spiritual convictions about war they were forced to go fight in the war. So in his book it is shown how we must start by accepting and respecting diverse cultures and learning from others unique understandings instead of trampling all over their beliefs and values. From this point on Ray Bradbury had his inspiration to write so he decided to become a full time writer in
This impacted him greatly as a writer because he finally had the inspiration he needed to write the science fiction novel he had always dreamed about, The Martian Chronicles. He used his view of America and turned it into The Martian Chronicles by creating a whole storyline to demonstrate how humans tend to ruin good things, which is referring to America prior to the Great Depression. “We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things” (Bradbury). But then came another inspirational factor, the United States entered World War II. At this point, there was a giant draft for young men to fight in the war. But fortunately, he was ruled unable for military service due to his vision problems and because of that he was able to pursue his dreams of becoming a writer. But he did utilize the draft in his book, because in The Martian Chronicles, a lot of the issues that arise are due to other trying to oppose their beliefs on everyone else, which is a reflection of the draft. The draft disregarded citizens personal beliefs because regardless of their personal or spiritual convictions about war they were forced to go fight in the war. So in his book it is shown how we must start by accepting and respecting diverse cultures and learning from others unique understandings instead of trampling all over their beliefs and values. From this point on Ray Bradbury had his inspiration to write so he decided to become a full time writer in