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Martian Chronicles

The Issues of Past and Present!

If the Martian Chronicles had been written in the 1999's instead of fifty years ago, many issues and problems would change. Ray Bradbury wrote his book in 1946. In it he wrote about problems such as censorship, man's cruelty to man, and loneliness. Each issue shows up in one or two of his chronicles. All of his issues affect every one of his characters in many different ways.

Censorship is a main problem or issue today, and in the book it shows up in one of his chronicles, "Usher II". In this chronicle, a man builds a house of Usher. One man points (he was from a group that was against all forms of imagination) out, "No books, no houses, nothing to be produced which in any way suggests ghosts, vampires, fairies, or any creature of imagination." Yet in this house he saw all of these things and more.

The chronicle also brings up the issue of censoring certain books by authors such as Edgar Allen Poe. The house that is built is......


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