Marvin By Shermann Analysis

1. My initial impression of this passage is a happy feeling. Marvin sounds obviously like a very interesting human being, who love nature.
2. The genre of this story is science fiction.
3. The exposition of this story is about a boy, named Marvin, who loved his real home so much that he did not understand why he had to leave it. For him, the view of Earth was extremely breathtaking. He noticed all the details, including the traces of the sun still playing on the ice; the misty border of the skies; white ,spectacular clouds; and etc. Then he realized why they could not stay. Their home was polluted. Therefore, that is why they had to leave. In this passage, the rising action is at its peak as Marvin and his dad raced though the gorgeous beauty
The protagonist is Marvin. The antagonist would definitely be Armageddon and the unknown forces that did this horrible damage.
5. Some of the traits that could tell what kind of a person Marvin is include, his love for nature. He obviously enjoys everything about his home from the twinkle of a star to a huge mountain peak. Another trait that can be found in him is sadness.
6. There is more than one setting. The passage starts about one, curious boy who had never been outdoors. As the boy enters the outside world for the very first time, the setting transforms into one big description of the Earth's beautiful scenery. The The setting changes into something dark and tragic, when the boy realizes why they have to
The beginning starts as exciting, since it is about a boy who is very enthusiastic to step outside for the very first time. ("...Marvin knew with a sense of rising excitement that there could be only one goal left. For the first time in his life he was going Outside.") Of course, the outdoors did not disappoint. The mood of the story turns into amazing as Marvin glares at the scenery for the first time in his life. ("...Minutes passed before Marvin could accept his challenge... but at last he could discern the outlines of continents, the hazy border of the atmosphere, and the white islands of cloud...He could see the glitter of sunlight on the polar ice. It was beautiful and it called to his heart across the abyss of space. There in that shining crescent were all the wonders that he had never known- the hues of sunset skies, the moaning of the sea on pebbled shores, the patter of falling rain..."). It is obvious by the author's picture, that the lad notices everything. Then the mood gradually starts to change into dark and tragic when the dude stops being hypnotized by the nature's glow and realizes a dim light that looks almost too evil. ("...Then Marvin, his eyes no longer blinded by the glare, saw that the portion of the disk that should have been in darkness was gleaming faintly with an evil phosphorescence...Across a quarter of a million miles of space, the glow of dying atoms was still visible, a perenial