The Martian Chronicles
In The Martian Chronicles, written by Ray Bradbury, is a novel that discusses the colonization of Mars by the people of Earth. Earth sends multiple expeditions to Mars that are all failures. On the fourth expedition the men find that the Martians that had lived there have all been wiped out by a disease, chicken pox, brought to them by previous expeditions. This is a similar incident to that of the Native Americans when the European settlers came to America. Many of them were killed by diseases they had not previously been exposed to. The people who came to settle Mars also destroyed much its beauty and the peacefulness. Like English settlers the people of Earth began to put in place their own culture and traditions. The intention of the settlers is not bad. They plan to leave Earth to escape the atomic war that is coming, much like the American settlers who were escaping for better freedoms.
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