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The Off Season Rhetorical Analysis

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Whilst Ray Bradbury's apocalyptic science fiction novel, “The Martian Chronicles”, incorporates a myriad of cardinal themes that link with several real-world issues, the chapter “November 2005: The Off Season” displays the negative consequences of colonization that best connects to the destructive qualities of humanity on the environment that Charles Wohlforth highlights in his article, “Choosing a Warning Label for Human DNA”. In the Off Season, returning fourth expedition explorer Sam Parkhill opens a hot-dog stand in the middle of near-desolate Mars when Martians come to warn him of the imminent end of Earth, to which he responds by going on a homicidal rampage until ultimately surrendering and being granted ownership of half the entirety …show more content…

The “Go on” is a snare. I’ll give you the Disease!” “I’ve already had the Disease,” said the voice. “I was one of the few survivors. I was sick a long time.” “Go on and hide in the hills, that’s where you belong, that’s where you've been.” “We mean you no harm.” “But I mean you harm!” said Sam, backing up. “I don’t like strangers”. I don’t like the Martians. I have never seen one before. All these years you guys hide, and all of a sudden you pick on me. Leave me alone.” (Bradbury 178). Essentially, the Earthians had carried chicken pox during their third expedition to Mars that the Martians contracted and a majority died from since they were incapable of fighting off the foreign disease, only a few surviving after the …show more content…

In his article, “Choosing a Warning Label for Human DNA”, Wohlforth explores the crippling relationship between humankind and Earth’s ecosystem. The author questions what would happen to humanity once Earth is ruined, and more explicitly, how we would “reseed” our species, arguing whether or not we would be accepted based on our calamitous nature. Accordingly, the first few paragraphs in particular tie most closely with the message Bradbury was trying to convey, as Charles testifies, “What kind of guests would we be in that world? Sending forth the seed of a species that has overrun and destroyed its own ecological niche—the Earth—we should at least include a warning label on the outside of the space capsule. The “Contents: Humanity. Use extreme caution when using the sand. Highly

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