Review of the book "The Illustrated Man"

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Review of the book ”The Illustrated Man”
By Richard Bradbury


Prologue

The book begins with the story of a man, who’s illustrated with tattoos all over his body. He’s banished from the planet Earth by everyone who’s met him. His tattoos tell stories which fill every man with fear and frighten. In the night, when The Illustrated Man sleeps, his tattoos begin to move, to form into different shapes and they reveal secrets from the future. Secrets no one wants to know. Secrets which scare everyone which´s viewing them. His tattoos tell stories about people in different times, which all are in great pain of something. Maybe it’s a plague or a disease.

The book

The book is divided into small stories, which of course are fragments of views from The Illustrated Man’s tattoo-stories. The stories have in common that they predict misery life on the planet Earth. They reveal the truth about new inventions, which helps and serves the mankind in far away times. The inventions are very good at a beginning, but later they’ll turn into your worst enemy.
The book contains stories about spacemen floating in the space, thinking about their miserable lives. About men on mars who have lived in rainy weather for a long time, and about their feeling when they find a dry place. About people which dream is to fly with the rockets to Mars so the Earth-plague won’t kill them. About people who escape in time by a time machine so they don’t have to fight and die in the war at the year 2155 a.d.

The moral is

I think the book is trying to tell the reader the good and bad sides of many inventions. It’s trying to influence the readers to look more critical to different things in their lives. And to appreciate what they’ve got instead of complaining. The book is also very negative to war and different kind of bombs, as well as robots and other machines.

To read the book

It was not at all easy. The book sometimes took a sideroad out to the undiscovered paths of confusion. I mean, It made no sense. Sometimes you had to read a whole chapter once again to understand it. But I finally found the red...