Racism on the Martian CHronicles
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Ray Bradbury conveys his feelings of racism in his science fiction novel, The Martian Chronicles. He uses characters to depict aspects of slavery from love and slavery of economics. He also uses characters to show slavery through social contract. Bradbury shows his feelings against slavery and racism throughout the novel.
"June 2003: Way in the Middle of the Air," a chapter in The Martian Chronicles is all about the black, enslaved, people leaving Earth to seek freedom on Mars. Bradbury uses an extended metaphor about a river flowing through the towns to describe the mass amount of slaves headed towards the rockets that will set them free. Many of the slaveholders had problems with the black people leaving. They were the people that used their slaves for work and entertainment. Many of them, like Samuel Teece, made up excuses for why the slaves had to stay with them but none of them worked. Despite the fight for them to stay, all of the black people made it to the rockets on time and were sent to Mars to be free...