civilizations of humankind, and his Martian mind was not capable of comprehending why populaces would see stuff like anthropophagy in a different way than his perception. On the same note, his acquaintances are unsuspectingly under the sway of rituals that guides their deeds and puts them dissimilar to those of Michael for causes that they do not fully comprehend. In the novel, it is depicted that Jubal’s willingness to question the “common sense” and the reasoning behind traditional actions enables him to view beyond the tyranny of the custom. Similarly, his crotchety old mind attitude implies that he is in a position of telling everybody what is in his mind. Equally, Ben never altered his...
