Dark They Were And Golden Eyed Analysis

The atom bomb is the world's most powerful force ever known. The atom bomb has helped while at the same time hurt our world a lot. On July 16,1945 the first atomic bomb was tested, but after its success people saw how terrible this weapon really was in total. Shortly after the U.S. built many of these and bombed Hiroshima, and Nagasaki in a major war. The story “ Dark They Were And Golden Eyed” is a social commentary based on the idea of the atomic bomb.
First Ray Bradbury’s book strongly connects to the social commentary of the atomic bomb. It is about how the bitterings family is forced to travel to mars and live there because a big war has struck and devastated the planet. “ One day the atomic bomb will fix earth” ( Bradbury 480) by killing earth and making it lifeless. Ray Bradbury used the atomic bomb as a big factor that had been played in this book. Because he supported that the atomic bomb is not

a good thing, also known that eventually the atomic bomb will the earth for the worse.
Next Syd Barrett's article The Bomb supports the huge social commentary of the atomic bomb by writing about it’s terrifying effects in a story.

In 1945 when president Harry Truman heard about the successful testing of the atomic bomb, he thought “ We have discovered the worst bomb on earth.” ( Barrett The Bomb) which shows how terrible and destructive this force really is. The atom bomb has killed many millions of people and has not helped this world very much at all.
Many people may easily say that the atomic bomb is good and the cold war has more effect than the atomic bomb has in total. In 1947 when the cold war had started and ended in 1991 it is called a war but the U.S. and Soviet Union never had any conflict much. The cold war ended when the Soviets, strongest force in the world at the time, collapsed due to socialism. People say that the cold war is better than the atomic bomb. But in Ray Bradbury’s “ Dark They Were And Golden Eyed” the cold war was never mentioned throughout the adventure as the atomic bomb played a huge part in the subject of the

story.
In conclusion the social criticism the atom bomb is most like to “ Dark they were and golden eyed because in the story the bitterings had to go to mars all because that a atomic bomb hit earth and forced them to go to colonization on Mars and hard time there. And connects strongly that the atomic bomb will not help us. But do everything including killing everything.