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Comparing Ray Bradbury's Dark They Were, And Golden-Eyed

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Imagine you are on a rocket headed to Mars to live and be safe from the war, completely unaware of what is going to happen to you.This essay will be comparing and contrasting the story “Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed” by Ray Bradbury to the radio play version of “Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed” by Michel Mcdonough.In these two stories, they are very similar in a few ways but in few ways very different.

One difference there is between the story “Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed” book version and “Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed” radio play version is the beginnings. At the beginning of the radio play, it has ray Bradbury introduce they play with an unnamed narrator. At 1:13 in the radio play ray Bradbury begins to say “This is Ray Bradbury. Join me for the next thirty minutes on a tour through time and space. Come along to the far future. Follow me into a strange past. With stories that almost could be, or might have been. Real or unreal, this is Bradbury 13.” On the other hand the story version it does not open like this. In the story, it starts on page 127 and it starts out right away …show more content…

The main character is harried or as the text most commonly refers to him as bittering (he plays the husband ) in both the radio play and the written text he is scared in a way to be on Mars. He does not want to be there and he wants to get home. One of the other main characters is Cora ( she is Harry's wife.)On the other hand, she is happy to be there and does not want to go home she is fine with staying on mars and wants Harry to be fine with it too. Cora and Harry have kids (Dan-son, Lura- daughter, David-son ) too but they are not the main characters. Later in the text, dan wanted to change his name, Michael Mcdonough gave better detail and information on that in the radio play than the

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