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Comparing Ray Bradbury's Dark They Were, And Golden-Eyed
The story “Dark they were, and Golden-Eyed” by Ray Bradbury was a great story about people from Earth arriving on Mars to have a brighter future. There was also the audio play produced by Mcdonough. The two stories had the same ideas, but there were a few little differences.
First of all, the difference between the plot is that in the beginning of the audio there is a brief summary about the story, but before the story instead of a summary, there is a background on why Bradbury chose to write a story. Also in the beginning of the actual story in the audio it had the pilot speaking and saying “welcome to mars”. In the beginning of the text it had descriptions on how the rocket landed and it doesn’t have any pilot speaking. Another way that the

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