The Martian Chronicles- ISU BLOG POST #6 (FINAL POST)

Social Issue

Throughout the book the social issue has been colonization and with the book coming to an end another issue has arose. For majority of the book the social issue has been colonization and now its also isolation. In the previous chapter a nuclear war has started on Earth which has the colonists of Mars going back to their home planet. It seemed as if everyone had left Mars but now we find out there is one person who is still on Mars because he was accidentally left behind. This man is named Walter Gripp and he manages to survive on his own but after he starts to feel lonely. However it turns out that there is someone else on Mars who is a woman, so a woman and a man are the last two people on Mars but it doesn't turn out to be the romantic ending you would expect. After seeing the woman the man is not at all attracted because he finds the woman to be very annoying and disgusting which leads to him going far away from her so he can never be found again. With only two humans left on Mars, the issue of isolation is loud and clear because they are living on a planet that at one point used to be populated with two different races of species.

Connection To A News Article

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-depression-cure/200907/social-isolation-modern-plague

This article is about social isolation and how it can affect a person's life in a negative way. This article also talks about the effects of social isolation like the higher risk of vulnerability to brain illness and depression. This article suggests that people should be more socially active by interacting with others so they can avoid loneliness. This connects to my book because a man on Mars was isolated and lonely until he found someone else. This has improved my understanding of isolation and being lonely because now I have learned that interacting with others and being social is very important when it comes to living a healthy life.

THE LAST TWO PEOPLE ON MARS

The Martian Chronicles-ISU BLOG POST #5

Social Issue 
For majority of the book the social issue has been colonization and now another issue has arose. With the population of humans increasing on Mars there are still a lot of things happening on Earth. There is a rumor going around Mars that there might be an upcoming nuclear war on Earth and this rumor turns out to be true. As the nuclear war is happening, the people on Mars come out to see explosions that are happening on Earth and after seeing the condition of their home planet they feel sympathetic for the people on Earth. The next day, the remaining humans of Earth use radios to contact their loved ones on Mars to tell them to come back home. This nuclear war has people going back to Earth to spend time with the family they had left behind.


Connection
On Earth there have been multiple acts of nuclear violence. In the past, a lot of nuclear attacks have occurred in Japan like the atomic bombings on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. This nuclear violence resulted in hundreds of thousands of people getting killed and injured. After the bombings WW2 came to an end. This incident relates to the nuclear war in my book because in both cases nuclear violence has led to a lot of change. This text to world connection shows how nuclear wars can result in an end, an end of a world war war or the end of the colonization of another planet.

This connection has made me realize that the characters in this book have handled and found solutions to many problems. The resolution of issues in my book has shown how people can make things better just by handling their problems in the right way and this has made me understand how no problem is ever to big to handle. When there was a nuclear war on Earth, the humans that were on Mars did the only thing they could do to make things better and that was to go back to Earth and help others out on their home planet.