The Martian Chronicles

Whenever I start reading a book, I always start imposing my own thoughts on where the book will go. For example, after reading the first couple of stories, I thought the entire book was going to be about different expeditions to Mars in a horror and scifi mesh. It didn't go that way at all, well, nit really. Then, I thought perhaps that Earth would be the new Mars, since all the Earth people were coming to Mars. I thought maybe that some other species would colonize Earth and then take over Mars and see how those Earth people like their planet being taken over. But no. It just ended with everyone dying.

I was very confused on where all the Earth people on Mars went though. I knew that on Earth they all died from war and stuff, which ok fair if the world was going to end my first thought would be world and disease. Ray Bradbury wasn't really creative on that one. Anyways, but the death of the Martian Earth people isn't ever really explained. That bothered me. But I assume that perhaps the Martians drove them out, as confusing as that sounds. Like their memories in some way kind of what I thought was happening in the story about the martian (I think?) that was pretending to be everyone's old dead relative. Or maybe it was just a it didn't really work out kind of thing. 

Also, Captain Wilder went out to freaking Jupiter and Pluto and stuff and he didn't find anything worth something? No civilizations no precious elements? That seemed off. Also, I found their lack of high tech really strange. I know they're telepathic, but they never seem to able to contact or be aware of everyone else on the planet. Mars just felt very small. That's all.

My Thoughts So Far

I started reading some of The Martian Chronicles and honestly I'm hooked. I only stopped reading because I had other homework. It's a page turner for me because it's actually kind of freaky and scary and it's the kind of feeling where I just have to know more. The stories of the different expeditions are frightening, and bothered me. But I couldn't stop. I'm still not far enough to know what has happened to the first expedition, but considering how the two following it turned out, I'm guessing pretty bad. The stories are set in the very early two thousands, so I think it's funny that the author thought we would have achieved sending mankind onto Mars. Maybe this book is what's holding us back.
I think it's interesting how the Martians think. They don't even call it the planet Mars, they call it Tyrr. All their names are just consonants, so it's kinda hard to pronounce it in my head. At one point they say that the children curl up with their spiders and honestly that's terrifying. It also mentions how they feed flowers, which sounds awesome. The Martians speak telepathically, which is how they're able to understand english, which is kind of confusing. When the Earth men land how are they not questioning the fact that they use their mouths to speak? There were also a lot of descriptions of things that I couldn't really wrap my head around because of how strange they sounded.
I think this book helps perpetuate the fear that space wants to kill us, but what if space doesn't really care? In Slaughterhouse Five, Billy Pilgrim tries to scare the aliens (I cannot remember their names) by telling them that humans should be feared and that they probably destroyed the universe. However the aliens are just like "no actually it was one of us lol sorry", like humans are a joke. Maybe we are a joke, I mean the Martians speak TELEPATHICALLY. That's freaking cool. Science on Earth can't even do that. I definitely believe we're not the only ones in the universe, because come on space is freaking huge, but we envision ourselves as the best. We're so self centered. But the Martians are the same way. They say that life on Earth can't exist because there's too much oxygen. If only we could see everyone else perphaps we wouldn't think this way.