The Martian Chronicles

In the novel, The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury the outlay of the story very much closely resembles the colonization of the Americas. For example, both “stories” begin with civilizations who are simply trying to carry out their own existence. As new intruders enter both societies, both the Martians and the Native Americans react in varying ways. Sometimes simply not believing, other times hiding. As colonization takes place in the novel, you see people change Mars to more closely resemble Earth. For example, adding trees and giving familiar names to the landscape. Much like the Europeans when they reached the Americas. for example, when the Europeans arrived, they found a world with an entirely different climate than their own. Soon they were building homes the way they had in Europe and running their towns in much the same way that they knew how. Sometimes they left the Martians original architecture with respect, other times defiling it. Bradbury even goes far enough to show the types of people that arrived on Mars. He shows that the first were explorers, much like Christopher Columbus, followed by the “loners” or those who were to try to break the land. The last of course being the refined and wealthy.