The Martian Chronicles

page 55-72

5 comments

• Spender is the one who is going to stay alive the longest because he is the only one thinking about the martians and what might have happened or what will happen, and he is the only one who seems to care about the planet and its history.
• I think spender was either taken by the martians or he simply didn't want to be apart of what he knew was going to happen to the rest of the crew.
• Spenders body was probably taken over by a martian or it took the form of him.
• Spender seems to be really laid back about the hunters coming for him.
• how could the caption be defeated by one man
  

4 questions

• Are they going to find out that there were martians living on the earth?
• I wonder if the poem that spender recited to the men is some kind of warning?
• Are the Martians going to get spender?
• What dose the martian want with people, why don't they like the humans?
  

3 words i don't know

• mechanisms- A machine or mechanical appliance.
• congressional- A formal assembly of representatives, as of various nations, to discuss problems.
  
• leery- wary; suspicious

2 literary terms

• situational irony- Spender is feeling sorry for the death of the martians, he says they must have been a peaceful race accepting what came to them. its ironic because what he says is not true, the martians did not accept what came to them. Every single human who landed on mars ended up dead.
• Foreshadowing- During there party the the wind is heavy and the author describes it going around people, he describes it as if the wind is alive. Then the wind suddenly dies which is like a sing saying that something bad or frightful is going to happen.
  

summery
In his section of the book, things start to looked bad for the fourth expedition, then things got real ugly. On of the crew members, spender, goes somewhat insane and he starts to kill the other members of the crew. He feels as if the planet is to good for humans to be on because all they will do is end up destroying it.