Red Planet stresses the danger of allowing initial impressions to control one's opinions of others. Heinlein relates the colonists' attitudes and situation to those of past pioneers and revolutionaries, and refers to historical episodes in which the inability or unwillingness to understand other cultures proved harmful.
There is violence in this book, much of it performed by two young boys.
Throughout, however, Heinlein is careful to.....
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