One day the colonizers look back at Earth and all they see is a green light:
"It's so far away it's unbelievable. It's not here. You can't touch it. You can't even see it. All you see is a green light. Two billion people living on that light? Unbelievable! War? We don't hear the explosions."
It's simple for them to forget. They don't care what happens back there because they are here and now. It's a good lesson I think. All of those things that seem so important, seem like the only things that could ever be important...maybe they're not.
I don't know if I buy it though. Gatsby's green light was the key and it always made him think about Daisy. It was the essence of Daisy, that light.
"You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock..."
Why did Bradbury make the light green? Why not blue if he didn't want me to think about Gatsby? That green light just has to be a Gatsby reference so why doesn't it make those colonizers want to just jump back on their rockets and go home?
Kind of awkward to post a comment. Had to create a google acct. However...On the green light, I don't know. I haven't got that far yet. Were they still first generation or second at that point? Was Bradbury a Gatsby man? And it still doesn't mean Earth had not become a distant dream. Dreams seem to be a big part of what i'v read so far. And didn't Daisy become more a dream than reality?
ReplyDeleteI guess it was actually a conversation between a younger person and an older person..the older person found it easier to forget because he had no real ties left to earth. For the younger people, the light made them think about their relatives back on earth and made them want to go back.
DeleteMaybe that's the idea with Daisy's green light. She's still there living right behind the green light so it has more power. You're right though...the idea/dream of Daisy was way better than the real thing.
Sry about the Google account...no real way around it.