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Does anyone have any summaries on "the other foot" by Ray Bradbury?

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  1. "The Other Foot"

    Mars has been colonized solely by black people. When they learn that a rocket is coming from Earth with white travelers, they institute a Jim Crow system of racial segregation in which white people are to be considered second-class citizens, in retaliation for the history of wrongs perpetrated on their race by white people. When the rocket lands, the traveler tells them that most of the Earth has been destroyed in a war and asks for their help. The people realize that discrimination is harmful in all its forms, and reverse their planned segregation.[1]

    "'The Million Year Picnic', 'The Strawberry Window' and 'The Other Foot' all have utopian themes, and describe families who live on Mars. In each story the inhabitants have left an Earth upon which they no longer wanted to live or felt safe to live. Discussion should begin with identifying the problems that caused these people to leave Earth. Are these problems that exist now? What is important about the strawberry window? Has the class ever heard the saying, “Looking through rose-colored glasses?” Does this apply here? You should think of groups of people of which they are aware that left their homelands to look for a better life. You can write a description of what they believe utopia is. Illustrations and maps might be created alongside your writing. [2]

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