ROCKET SUMMER
Rocket descends in a small town
What is Ohio?
Martians are receiving signals from Earthmen.
What is telepathic?
Upon arrival many settlers suffer from
What is loneliness?
The unnamed official who agrees to let Driscoll plant trees across Mars.
Who is the Co-ordinator?
He meets an old man who likes how strange and different Mars is.
Who is Tomas Gomez?
Metaphorically this is set aside by the rocket's heat.
What is winter
The Martians grow disturbed by the sudden influx of _________ information
What is alien?
Upon arrival, he had trouble breathing
Who is Benjamin Driscoll?
The _______ recommends that Driscoll return to Earth
Who is the doctor?
"If people can't appreciate the things of Mars they should go back to Earth."
Who is Pop?
She hears _________ from far away at just the time the rocket is supposed to have arrived.
What are gunshots?
Martians are singing songs and reciting poems from Earth—specifically from what decade?
What is the 1940's?
These are planted to help with breathing
What are oxygen trees?
The __________, is the antagonist in this section of reading
What is the landscape/Mars
A martian operating a insect-like machine
Who is Muhe Ca?
Blue - eyed creature
Who is Nathaniel York
Martian children beginning singing the old nursery rhyme.
What is Old Mother Hubbard?
The unnamed official who agrees to let Driscoll plant trees across Mars.
Who is the Co-ordinator?
The reason Benjamin D. passes out
What are the trees growing overnight?
He learns to read Martian
Who is Spender?
Everyone in the town started to use the term “__________” because of how warm the town suddenly became
What is rocket summer?
A poem that references the starry skies
What is "She Walks in Beauty"?
Bradbury compares Earth to this__________
What is a muddy baseball?
Bradbury parallels Benjamin Driscoll to the famous American pioneer
Who is Johnny Appleseed?
Muhe Ca thinks that Tomas is a ___________because he seems to exist in a different plane.
What is a ghost?