The Martian Chronicles

By 15delrason

  • Rocket Summer

    This is the beginning of the novel. It is describing what is about to happen throughout the course of the plot. In this one, it is about how the first expedition is about to set off to Mars, and how it looks to other people around the area.
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  • Ylla

    Ylla's husband kills the first expedition of Earth men out of jealousy. We learn Martians have telepathy, and also human flaws like jealousy and desire.

  • The Summer Night

    So we learned that visions like this are common across Martians. Little kids sang the tune they had in their head, as well as continuing to say that they were coming "nearer".

  • The Earth Men

    This is the second expedition. This one is all about how the martians do not/choose not to believe that there is the possibility these people could not be from Earth. They believe that they are hallucinating, and that the hallucinations are being projected into the Martians mind. Ultimately, a psychologist martian kills the 2nd expedition men, and then kills himself.

  • The Taxpayer

    This is a short chronicle about a man that desperately wants to go to Mars because he was afraid of the oncoming atomic war. The people in charge tell him no, and he shakes his fist and leaves the site.

  • The Third Expedition

    The third expedition is the creepiest one yet. The men from earth make their way to Mars again, only this time they are greeted with friends and family. Friends and family that are dead, and have been for quite some time. All of this was just an illusion however, becuase the Martians morphed into the family, and yet again all of the expeditioners die.

  • -And The Moon Be Still As Bright

    The 4th expedition lands and is successful. They find out that all the martians have died because of chicken pox. A man named Spender claims he is a martian and proceeds to kill the crew, and Wilder tries to reason with him. He fails and is forced to kill Spender

  • The Settlers

    This is a short chronicle desctibing the type of people that want to go to Mars. It talks about how people on their way away form Earth felt as they slowly lost sight of their planet.

  • The Green Morning

    This is about a man named Mr. Driscoll that wishes to populate Mars with more trees and foliage. He realizes the air is very thin, so he makes it his goal to plant an abundance of trees to produce more oxygen. He succeeds.

  • The Locusts

    This is a symbolic short chronicle about not literal locusts, but the human race. The humans are being compared to locusts because they are destroying all that was native to Mars and coming in vast numbers, just as locusts do.

  • Night Meeting

    It seems that Martians are not only able to read minds and change their shape, but they seem as if they exist on a plane completely different from that of humans.

  • The Musicians

    Bradbury repeats his theme of careless humans destroying Martian civilization. This time, however, it is not an ancient building or scroll that is being destroyed, but actual Martian corpses.

  • The Wilderness

  • The Naming of Names

    It is ironic that, for Bradbury, the naming of names represents a controlling, life-strangling government. This is short, explaining that the humans name the places after people and expeditions.

  • Usher II

    This is a chronincle about censorship. Alludes to Usher by Edgar Allen Poe. A man made a house with robots in it that kill people.

  • The Old Ones

    It is clever of Bradbury to include the retired in his story of settlers. Old people are looking for a restful, escapist place, and going to Mars is almost like going halfway to heaven.

  • The Martian

    The LaFarges are on Mars to forget their dead son Tom. Tom shows up, in his 14 year old self, but he should be dead. The only problem is that when Tom gets close to other people, he starts to change his appearance.

  • The Off Season

    We meet Sam Parkhill again, but this time he's got it together and he just started up his own business which happens to be a hot dog stand. Earth's Nuclear war begins this night.

  • The Luggage Store

    Father Peregrine (from "The Fire Balloons") comes to talk to the luggage-store owner about the war that's coming on Earth. The luggage-store owner argues that people will return to Earth because that's still their home.

  • The Watchers

    Hearing the news of possible war, a lot of the colonists on Mars come out to watch the Earth at night. They see explosions all over the Earth. People from Earth radio to the people on Mars asking them to come home, because of family.

  • The Silent Towns

    So there's a last man on Mars and a last man on Earth. They try to be together but the man, Walter Gripp, can't marry her because she always eats chocolate and watches the same movie.

  • The Long Years

    Wilder and his crew are happy to meet Hathaway, though it's a little weird that Hathaway is so old and his family is so young. We find out that these family members of his are robots. That he made. For himself. Because he's lonely.

  • There Will Come Soft Rains

    In Allendale, California, an automated house goes on its automated way. Every hour is announced and the house does what's it's supposed to do. It makes breakfast in the morning for the family and lights a cigar for the husband at night. But the people are all dead, and the rest of the city is radioactive debris and rubble.

  • The Million Year Picnic

    there's a family of 4 and they're staying on Mars forever. Dad saved a rocket for just this occasion. There's another family that might be joining them.The dad blows up the rocket and burns a bunch of Earth papers. These people are Martians.