Martian Chronicles Post #1

The title of the chapter was June 2001:  -And The Moon Be Still As Bright. This story is about when the astronauts from Earth land on Mars and experience their first night there.  A passage that describes the setting is on page 49, paragraph 3, "It wouldn't be right., the first night on Mars, to make a loud noise, to introduce a strange, silly, bright thing like a stove." Another passage that describes it would be on page 48, paragraph 1, "It was so cold when they first came from the rocket into the night that Spender began to gather the dry Martian wood and build a small fire." This passage sounds like it starts it begins the middle of the story and shows it from the humans' perspective. Bradbury uses the setting to comment on the conflict by using the cold atmosphere of Mars, having the humans debate on whether to use the chemical fuel or make the fire handmade. In conclusion, this story was about the struggles of humans on Mars.

Response To Science Fiction Ariticle

This article, How Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles" Changed Science Fiction (And Literature), shows that science fiction in its entirety is a whole different genre than people back in the 1950's have experienced with. He breaks usual 'traditions' when it came to writing "The Martian Chronicles. Instead of going with the more typical setting of new and advanced technology or having everything look like a utopia, Bradbury starts with more of an "at home" setting. He doesn't go along with what most people think of when they hear the words science fiction. He strays away from that and uses his own imagination to create his story. Ray Bradbury also makes allusions to American history. The article clearly states, "Just as Europeans landed in North and Central America wholly unprepared for what they found there, Bradbury's Earthmen are unprepared time and again for the wonder and the horror of Mars." As you can now see, Ray Bradbury changed science fiction and flipped the script on what a good science fiction looks like.

Dandelion Wine Evaluation

What I didn't like about Dandelion Wine is that it seemed very..redundant. It was all about people who have experienced different things during the summer of 1928. To me, I want something with a little more action. I mean, sure, I like the witty references such as calling an old man a time machine. That's probably ONE of the only things I liked about it, The other story I liked was the one when the women were all having a good time together and all of a sudden one of them is followed home. What I learned about writing from the book was that writing doesn't always have to sound so formal, such as "Madame". I learned that it's ok to write in your own voice, not as someone that you're not. The author didn't make much of an impression on me because when I heard his name..it gave me a weird vibe like, 'Oh dear, this is gonna be a dragger." What I mean by that is that he gave me the impression that Dandelion Wine was one of those books that drag on forever and ever and ever, with seemingly no end in sight and for me as a reader, I hate stories like that with a burning passion. At least this story changed on perspective every so often. It was probably the only reason why I didn't lose my mind when I first started reading it. I learned a bunch of things from the book though. What I learned is that you have to live each day like it's your last because you don't know when you're going to lose it.