Mars is Heaven! (or hell?)

rather enjoyed the transition away from academic pieces. As interesting as academic articles are they tend to get a little dry sometimes and it is good to get a dose of creative writing. Which I must say this piece is incredibly creative and interesting to see the spin Bradbury puts on reality. I have read this piece before and it is more enjoyable each time I read it. I believe turning this story into a radio show would be a great idea because it is short enough, compelling enough, and captivating enough to interest radio listeners. There would not have to be much editing or changing that would need to be done to make this piece a radio program. If I where changing this into a radio show I would change the story into a screen play with multiple characters voices and an announcer to handle the narrators job of alliterating the situation and setting through words. Bradbury does a magnificent job in bringing to life the settings and situations he portrays in his story. For example when Captain John Black's troops see all of their dead relatives and friends he describes the setting as "A brass band exploded in the sunlight, flinging off a gay tune from upraised tubas and trumpets. There was a bang of drums and a shrill of fifes. Little girls with golden hair jumped up and down. Little boys shouted "Hooray!" And fat men passed around ten-cent cigars. They mayor of the town made a speech. Then, each member of the crew with a mother on one arm, a father or sister on the other, was spirited off down the street, into little cottages or big mansions and doors slammed shut." This is a spectacular job of alliteration and I do not believe these words would have to be changed too much by the narrator.

Shifting too a different genre does not always involve a huge set of changes, especially switching from a written to a spoken genre. It helps too when the author has as much talent for writing as Bradbury does. However changing the deliverance method of something does not necessarily change the genre completely. The change from a academic to a fictional genre will change a story very fast. Fictional genres let the imagination run wild with crazy ideas while an academic genre is a little more down to earth and factual. Changing an written academic piece to a spoken academic piece would be much more difficult and painful due to the need for mass amounts of information that need to be delivered in an interesting and captivating way.