This week we began to look at the story of Valentine Michael Smith as he begins to learn how to act human, having come from a Martian background. He comes to earth innocent, having never been exposed to our ways and our customs, and begins to learn how to comply with human customs. He is forced to make decisions with little to go on except intuition and experience from another world. He wants so badly to please and to fit in that when he feels that he has not acted in the manner that the people around him had wanted, it is very difficult for him. Loyalty is an absolute for Smith, and protecting his water brothers are his top priority.
"Smith's face had been completely blank. Now it became tragically forlorn as he realized that he must have chosen wrong action at the cusp."(Heinlein, 92)
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