Martian

“A flooding sea of hot air; it seemed as if someone had left a bakery door open”. A line from The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. A motif is like when someone says describe the text in one word. Authors like to use motifs to help with the theme of the story. In The Martian Chronicles there was three motifs: courage, discovery, and death. Courage was the most prevalent motif throughout the entire book. Courage is doing something even if it frightens someone. All the men from earth had…

The movie The Martian is a very well planed out movie. The acting was really good, the scripts were not boring, and scenery and special effect were out of this world, literally. Right now you're thinking, "Oh, this must be a really good movie."But, don't make your decisions so quick, I still have to go deeper into the acting and the scenery. The acting performance was very good. The actors fit their character pretty well. The only part that didn't seem right was when the crew got hit by this…

Set in Mars, the second of the Martian Chronicles, “Ylla” tells the story of a female alien who lives with her husband on the Red Planet. This marriage is tough, and though they used to be in love, they are struggling now. Ylla begins to have strange dreams of other aliens who live on Earth, the third planet. These aliens from Earth have blue eyes, black hair and white skin, while Ylla and her husband have yellow coin eyes.The planet was supposedly uninhabitable, because it had too much oxygen…

When I read the book, The Martian, I was quite intrigued and could definitely spot the differences easily, like how Mark Watney describes his situation. It was more for comedic relief in my mind, but in the book, I see it as being more serious. I liked the movie as well. I loved seeing Matt Damon trying to work out everything his character came across like when he found Pathfinder and was able to contact NASA. Throughout the movie, Watney is found always the hero to himself, when in the book he…

that strives to go beyond high school, and one who will benefit from the furthering of my education. I see that learning does not just occur within the school building, but also from researching, reading, and seeking knowledge elsewhere. From The Martian to An Elegant Solution, I draw little pieces of scientific and mathematic truths, which fascinate me and send me on a search for…

Martian Child is a film that focuses on the blossoming relationship between a movie writer and the unique child he considers adopting. Throughout the film, the child, Dennis, displays his unique personality everywhere, believing to be from the planet Mars. The movie writer, David, was always there for Dennis. It took time for their friendship to ultimately become the father-son relationship Dennis needed in his life. In the end, Dennis comes to the realization that there is someone out there…

Do you think that being trapped on a planet all by yourself is frightening? In the book, “The Martian” , written by Andy Weir, Mark Watney an astronaut who majors in botany, gets stranded on Mars alone. While on a mission on Mars, a strong dust storm comes unexpectedly and the crew has to evacuate immediately in order to survive. They make there way to the MAV so they can abort but in the meantime an antenna flies off of it and hits Mark. He is hit and his pushed out of reach, so the crew must…

Rescuing Mark Watney - The Martian, Humanities 10 In our society today, the moral usually believes in “The needs of the many outweigh the need of one”. In some situations, there are dilemmas that we have to make sacrifices in order to solve the issue; our moral would tend choose the happiness of the many over the sacrifices of the few, thus, the least would be sacrificed for the happiness of the majority. However, in the book The Martian by Andy Weir, the idea is communicated in a different…

Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles describes man’s exploration and colonization of Mars. Knowing it is written by Ray Bradbury and during the 1950s; one should note that this is a Si-Fi fantasy. It begins in the year 2030 when the first astronauts are sent to Mars to explore. The Martian people keep killing the astronauts, because they believe they are illusions created by the mind (to clarify, Martians have telepathy). After a few waves of ships, the “deadly” disease chicken pox, spread by…

Humans are very curious. So it was completely natural for Ray Bradbury’s book, The Martian Chronicles, tries to show us the unforeseen consequences of such curiosity, only with exploring Mars. With almost the entire Martian race being wiped out by people, it’s no surprise that humans also almost wipe themselves out with atomic warfare. The consequences of the war and wiping out of almost the entirety of all races are huge and serious. I think the main message of the book is that humans have no…