The Martian Chronicles
Page 19-36

5 Comments

• I think that Mr. Iii is like the mayor of the town or some other kind of important role.
• i think the author is trying to portray how people tend to expect a reward or recongnition for there work or discovery instead of just being happy with what they have.
• The caption is really naïve for not reding the contrace before he signed it.
• The caption and his crew weren't just put into any room they were put into an insane house.
• Mr. Iii thinks that they are insane martians who made themselves look like other forms of life, he is probably going to have a hard time trying to cure them, and when he realizes that they are real a nd not insane he is going to try and tell his people and then they are going to think that he is insane too.

4 questons

• Why are every ones name on mars three or for letters at the most and none of them actually spell a wrod?
• why is it that they have to wear mask to show there emotions?
• Why dose Mr. Iii find the other three men so funny when the caption askes him if they should also sign the paper?
• What is the euthanasia?

3 words i dont know

• amphitheater-an oval or round building with tiers of seats around a central open area, as those used in ancient Rome for gladiatorial contests.
• rigmarole-an elaborate or complicated procedure
• Dubiously-wavering or hesitating in opinion

2 literary terms

• simile- The author compares how the captain looks when he stands up to the expression of a child staring at a pale christmas tree.
• Foreshadowing- Mr. Iiinot beliveing the men and kiloling them then killing himself is telling you that this is probably going to be the case for every earth ship that arrives on mars and it is going to be the cause of the martians demise.

summary

This section pretty much lets you know what th conflict throughout the rest of the story is going to be. The conf;lict is that the martians are going through some kind of insane epidemic and the humans arriveing are feeding in to that.