The Martian Chronicles

The Martian Chronicals by Ray Bradbury is about the human population colonizing Mars. The book has many science-fiction short stories put together to form a novel. Throughout the book the humans colonized Mars in a way very simalar to the way the early settlers colonized America. The martians were also treated in much of the same way that the Native Americans were treated. The humans came in and made Mars a new America, with many of the same characteristics of their old society.Bradbury describes the planet of Mars very poetically and uses sharp imagery to describe many things. The people on Mars were shipped back to Earth to be used in the atomic war towards the end of the book. Then in the last section a family cames to Mars to start a whole new civilization with no traces of Earth on it. This is Bradbury's way of saying that a new place should not be colonized based on previous civilizations but should be started anew.