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Fear Of Annihilation In Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles

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The Martian Chronicles is a collection of short tales, each with its own underlying fear. One chapter, “The Million-Year Picnic”, contains within it the fear of annihilation. Bradbury conveys this through the use of conflict and point of view. The conflict shows how Earth was being destroyed, and that people fearing for their lives wanted to escape. The point of view shows the desperation of a family fleeing their home planet Earth in secret to escape the destruction of the atomic war. Bradbury emanates the fear of annihilation through the tactic of conflict to show a destructive war created by society and point of view to portray a family seeking safety and freedom. An Earth family lands on Mars after the humans had long since abandoned
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