The story “Dark They Were and Golden Eyed” represents what would happen if people on Earth eventually sent humans up to Mars, but can also be related to American Colonization. The Americas were discovered between 1492 and 1502, a voyage led by Christopher Columbus. Columbus was looking for a westward route to Asia when he found the Americas. The story “Dark They Were and Golden Eyed” is a social commentary about American Colonization. American Colonization is similar to the story because of how Christopher Columbus found the New World with people already living there, is like when the humans came to Mars and saw “the mountains where the Martians lived a long time ago” (Bradbury 480). In both American Colonization and the story “Dark They
