The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Journal entry 7

Five Comments

1. Mr. Bigelow is the architect of the Usher House

2. Mr. Stendahl owns the Usher House

3. Mr. Stendahl wanted his house to be scary and desolate

4. The equipment that was needed to bring to Mars to build the Usher House was brought on a rocket

5. Mr. Bigelow in order to make the house desolate, he killed everything living in the area

Four Questions

1. Why would he want his house to be scary?

2. Is Mr. Stendahl trying to keep people away from is home?

3. Why was the name of the house the Usher house?

4. What's a DDT?

Three Words

1. Lurid:

2. Ebon:

3. Innocuous

Two Literary Techniques

1. Personification: " Blueprints rustled on the raven grass at their feet" (Bradbury 103).

2. Allusion: "Well what about this name: Edgar Allen Poe" (Bradbury 105).

One Sentence Summary

1. The Usher House was built on Mars and it was named after Edgar Allen Poe's story "The fall of the House of Usher".