Answer to Question #199380 in English for Sisanda Dlambewu

Question

It is only at the end of the story Man lands on the Moon that the title's significance is revealed. Write a paragraph in which you explain the irony of the story's title.

Answer 1

The irony of the story "Man Lands on the Moon" is that it circulates in many successful people who made it to reach the moon in the recent past.

For the following six lunar journeys where a total of twelve astronauts have set their feet on the Moon, not one of them were women or non-binary individuals. The naming of the missions is already a telling choice; Apollo in Greek mythology is the male deity of the sun, light, knowledge, order, and agriculture, along with many other things, but essentially the epitome of physical superiority and moral virtue. Aldrin and Armstrong, the two pivotal figures of the Apollo 11 mission, carry this legacy with them together with the weight of their cultural backgrounds. The portrait taken by Armstrong is a complex one, both visually and conceptually. It was exposed with a specially made Hasselblad camera, which, together with the photographer and the rest of the technical equipment, are all reflected on the surface of Aldrin's space helmet. The image has been composed so that the scale of the Moon in relation to the size of the portrayed person is distorted, as the central figure is still occupying most of the perceived space. The horizon behind both astronauts merges into a seamless line, while their non-identifiable faces appear to be looking at each other. They are aliens on a celestial body that has not encountered human life before. They launched a history, that was already conceived with a specific agenda: colonizing the Moon. Our planet's only Moon. However, as opposed to previous explorers, like Christopher Columbus, the Apollo 11 crew already had an idea of what they would find on this uninhabited land.