The Illustrated Man summaries

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             This story is about blacks that lived on mars for 20 years, while the whites fought World War 3. After earth had been completely destroyed, a white man headed to mars from earth, to plea with the blacks for help. The blacks thought the whites were looking for a fight, and wanted to take mars from them. The leader of the blacks, Willie Johnson, still resented whites for the deaths of his mother and father. After hearing the mans plea, and some serious reconsideration, Willie Johnson decided that it was going to be a new life, and took down signs that had been created saying "colored only." Bradbury is telling us not to judge a book by its cover, but by its content.
             I do not understand at all the relevance of this chapter. Hernando, a farmer, stood on the highway, and watched the rush of cars, after zero, and then came a final car. This car needed water for its radiator and told Hernando that the atom war had begun.
             This chapter was very boring, but still had a great theme. Captain Hart and his crew had landed on a new planet, and wondered why the "welcoming committee" was not there to welcome them. Hart sent Martin, one of his crew, to go into the city and figure out the problem was. Martin came to find that after years of waiting, God had come. In disbelief, Hart questions citizens whom were healed, and finally he was stunned by their replies. He went to see the mayor, and begged to know where God was. The mayor lied to him, and said that he did not know, he had left their planet. So in anger, captain Hart shot him in the arm and decided to leave and go from planet to planet looking for God. After Hart left with only three
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