Ray Bradbury, often known as the world's best fiction author, wrote The Martian Chronicles. At the beginning of this book there are four expeditions. All these expeditions fail due to a misunderstanding. One way or another something is always misinterpreted that leads each crew to their own fateful fate. In The Martian Chronicles there are four expeditions to Mars. Each of them is unsuccessful, but Earth still decides to build a civilization there to avoid atomic war at home. This book consists of many short stories dealing with hysteria, jealousy, loneliness, greed, love and betrayal both on Earth and Mars. In all the Martian Chronicles stories the main idea is that people ventured to Mars to establish a civilization. After building cities to replace those of the original Martians, humans abandoned Mars to return to their families on Earth and provide support as the atomic war raged. In the first expedition, Yll misinterpreted Nathanial York's Ylla's mental telepathy as a threat. to his love life. When Ylla began to dream of Nathanial, she felt as if she spent more time thinking about this strange earthling than thinking about Yll. This may be true, but Nathanial and his crew intended no harm to any of the Martians. Since Nathanial appeared to be a tall, seductive handsome man with black hair and blue eyes, Ylla was baffled to dream of such a creature. These dreams left her shocked and confused. You will be angry at this earthly creature for causing his wife to experience these strange discrepancies. Yet Nathanial was unaware of the dreams he was causing. Yll misinterpreted these innocent dreams as intentional dreams in hopes of destroying the love between Yll and Ylla. He was wrong. But with his anger, jealousy and misinterpretation, he went out and killed both crew members. Yll's mission was successful; not only did he kill men, he killed Ylla's dreams. So the first expedition was fatal, all because of a single misunderstanding. The second expedition was a complete and utter disaster that could have been avoided by clearing up a single misunderstanding. Jonathan Williams wasn't crazy! The entire time Jonathan and his crew of three were on Mars, the Martians were so stunned by the appearance of these astronauts, that they mistook Jonathan for a mental disorder! These Martians believed that Captain Williams was insane and that his crew members were mere hallucinations.