The Gift

The Gift

It looks like Ray Bradbury did not write this story! However he really did. This story unlike all his others has no cruelty or deaths in it. It is about a family that is leaving Earth to go to Mars on Christmas Eve! This boy wants a tree for Christmas and the parents got one but had to leave it behind due to the weight of the tree. This is when they suprise the boy ,with a look through the shuttle's windows, with more than you can count stars all shining brightly.


When I first read this the first thing that popped into my head was Mars. Looking at space travel today I would say that this would be a very big step. There is a big risk landing on the moon without anything falling off the shuttle. Just to think of the risk if we decided to travel to Mars now would be almost a suicide. It just makes you wonder what will happen in the future.