The Earth Men Rhetorical Analysis

“The Earth Men”

“The Earth Men” is one of the few stories in the novel that has quite significant importance. The story formally introduces the martians capability to communicate by telepathy, which is how they are able to communicate with humans and speak the same language. Their capability to do so is also significant throughout the novel as they use it to manipulate humans in later expeditions. For example in “ The Third Expedition”, the martians use telepathy to manipulate Captain John Black and his Men by making it appear as if their long dead family members experienced an afterlife on mars. Instances like this are seen throughout the story and wouldn't be clear without the introduction this story provides.

Although they had just completed

They repeatedly get sent to different people until they finally find a place where they think they have finally found martians who care about what their accomplishment, only to find out they care because they are insane.They were only sent there because it is an Insane Asylum and the martians they spoke to thought they were just fellow martians who were mentally deranged. As the story progresses, the tone is still humorous, but becomes dark. Mr. XXX kills all the men that were on the expedition, and eventually kills himself because he thinks they have transferred their insanity to him. Sadly, this was all because of his ignorance to man-made technology.

People will go to extreme lengths to seek attention, but sometimes they seek it in the wrong places, and therefore have to suffer the consequences. The Earth men had just completed a wonderful achievement, but when no one had be celebrating with them or congratulating them as they had thought they deserved, they began to seek for attention. They continued to seek attention until they were sent to an insane asylum, and were later killed because they were thought to be severely insane. If they had kept to themselves and had not sook attention , their lived would not have ended so

It's a side story that shows that all people, no matter what race, wanted to go to mars. It displays racism and shows that mars was a place everyone wanted to go to and experience. The story by itself is very interesting and carries much suspense. Since we do not read about any of the characters or hear about black people entering mars later in the novel, it does not contribute much to the overall storyline of the novel.

The characters in this story would be considered extreme racists in today's society, but at the time the novel was written, their mentality was quite normal. The main character of this story is Samuel Teece, an outspoken racist that owns slaves, and likes to torture black people at night . His Grandfather, who is also racist ( like any other person at the time), shows compassion towards the black people at certain times, and is therefore less racist than his grandson. There are also numerous black people in the story, but not too much detail is given about