Ray Bradbury's Mars Is Heaven !

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In “Mars Is Heaven!” by Ray Bradbury, the familiarity from the Earth-like setting, reacquainting with deceased family members at the excitement of the crew, and domestic imagery serves to show the astronauts’ allurement into a false sense of security, contentment, and nostalgia that is cunningly used to harm them. The setting, described as a “beautiful spring day”, is alluring to the crew from the beginning when their ship touches down “on a lawn of green grass” (Bradbury, 1367). The neighborhood imagery strikes the men as reminiscent, where up the lawn “a tall brown Victorian house sat in the quiet sunlight” and “an old swing...now swung back and forth, back and forth” (Bradbury, 1367). Captain Black sees his own childhood home, saying he

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