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The Martian Chronicals

Chapter 1
Setting: January 1999 Ohio
Characters: N/A
Events: A rocket descends upon Ohio and creates a temporary summer feel in the winter due to the heat the rocket expelled.
Opinion: I don't think that a rocket landing would actually melt away all of the snow in January.

Chapter 2
Setting: February 1999 Mars
Characters: Yll, Ylla, Nathaniel York, Pao, Dr. Nile
Events: Ylla a Martian women has a dream that a rocket comes from the third planet from the sun. In this dream a human named Nathaniel York talks to her tells her she is beautiful and takes her away in his ship. This man had blond hair, blue eyes and was light skinned. This was unheard of on mars because Martians had coin like eyes yellow skin and blondish hair. She also has picked up a song that is not in their language; that she does not know where it is from. She tells her husband Yll about these dreams but he becomes worried and thinks she is sick and insists on going to town for entertainment. That night Ylla dreams more about the rocket and Nathaniel and learns where and when the rocket will land. Yll hears her entire dream and plots to keep her away from that area. He tells her that his friend is joining them for dinner and he wants her to be there for it. While they are waiting he informs her that he is going to go hunting while he is out Ylla hears two shots going off and she begins to scream hysterically. She forgets the song that she was singing and no longer has the dreams.
Opinion: The chapter was very depressing it is like the life that could have been versus the life that it is. Ylla could have gone to earth with Nathaniel but instead because of her visions she instead is to live out her life on Mars.

Chapter 3
Setting: August 1999 Mars
Characters: N/A
Events: The Martian race starts receiving telepathic signals from the approaching humans in the rocket. The children are singing nursery rhymes from earth bands play music from Earth and singers are singing in...