How Does The Martian Chronicles Show The Dark Side Of Change

The Martian Chronicles written by Ray Bradbury has many different types of stories that all revolve around each other and each are based upon the same idea. They are based upon Earth becoming a place where people no longer want to live and how they expand to the planet Mars to live. In his stories Ray Bradbury shows the dark side of life in many different ways. He uses the theme of change, the imagery of fire and dryness, the fear created from isolation and sadness and the greed humans to show the dark side of life. Some of Ray Bradbury’s stories show the dark side of life in different ways.

Ray Bradbury through his work shows how the theme of change contributes to the dark side of life. In the story “The Earth Men” he shows this through the

Pell “Style Is The Man: Imagery In Bradbury’s Fiction” it helps show the change in The Martian Chronicles. This phrase “Rockets? Rockets can either ‘flowers of heat and color’ or pummeling objects. The following passage from The Martian Chronicles shows the Earthling and Martian Picture series we used earlier for images tied to nature and small towns: The rockets came like drums, beating in the night. The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke… men with hammers in their hands to beat the strange world into a shape that was familiar to the eye, to bludgeon away all the strangeness, their mouths fringed with nails so they resembled steel-toothed carnivores, spitting them into their swift hand….” (Pell 189) show the change of what the Earth men are doing to this world and how they are destroying it by colonizing it. They are here to make it familiar to them and get rid of all the strangeness. This is showing the dark side of life with change. In the book Ray Bradbury and the cold war written by Joseph Kampff and Gred Clinton shows the change of what's going on Mars and why“,the ensuing large scale colonization of the planet, the nuclear war that destroys Earth, and the subsequent abandonment of Mars by its Earth colonists. “(Kampff 54) This shows the colonization of Earth people on Mars and how they are changing it because of the war going on Earth. The change on Earth is leading to the dark side of life and their actions on