Blog #5- Mars Is Heaven

After reading "Mars Is Heaven," it made me think. I really enjoyed this short story. It was engaging, interesting and had an incredible amount of twists and turns. Every time you had an idea about what was happening in the story, it took it a completely different direction. In addition, the ending kind of left me hanging, still wanting to continue to read. If this were to have been a radio show, I would have just cut it up into segments. After one session, leave the audience hooked in and wanting to know what happens. I think every time there was about to be a new twist, end the show there for that day, just so your audience will tune in to find out what happens. As I said, I really enjoyed this story; I wouldn't really make any changes. I don't feel the need to change something that is well written and engaging. I would keep the actors, scenes and brilliant details alive such as, "Showers of petal snow sifted down when the wind touched the apple tree, and the blossom smell drifted upon the air" (Bradbury 324). Reading very exquisite sentences like this over a radio show would be awesome in giving a full graphic picture for your audience. I think this story would do well as a radio show because it's catchy, so it would pull people in, it has twists, to keep people listening, and it's well written which people very much enjoy. In addition, back when this story was written, people were all about radio shows, and even one came out about aliens which people tuned into every time it was on.

If your were to switch the genre of this story (or any story really), it would completely change the entire storyline. For example, if "Mars Is Heaven" was a romantic genre, first off, none of them would have died (assuming so). The captain would have most likely awoken in the morning, had some delicious mom-cooked waffles, gone to see the woman he lusts for, and fallen in love with some trials and tribulations first. Switching a genre completely changes everything. I think before any film or book is created, the genre is already known. That author/director/writer already has a direction in which he/she wants the story to go, and that starts with knowing the purpose of the movie, how the characters will act and why. However, what was interesting is there seemed to be a switch in genre in this movie. At first it seemed very happy and upbeat in the process of discovering new land. Then it turned evil towards the end, which was a complete surprise. All in all, the story was done well, however, with a change in genre, the text is going to be interpreted, if not literally different.