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Leonard Mark
A Martian exile with blood rust who, along with four other men, finds Saul and Mark hiding out in a cave. When Mark suggests a schedule to share his abilities with all of the men equally, it is Johnson who quickly rejects the idea in favor of instead forcing Mark to do whatever the men want, even if this means brutally torturing him. Johnson is carrying a gun, and in the resultant chaos shoots and kills both Smith and Saul.
Johnson Quotes in The Visitor
The The Visitor quotes below are all either spoken by Johnson or refer to Johnson. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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“The Visitor” Quotes
By dawn the arguments and ferocities still continued. Mark sat among the glaring men, rubbing his wrists, newly released from his bonds. He created a mahogany paneled conference hall and a marble table at which they all sat, ridiculously bearded, evil-smelling, sweating and greedy men, eyes bent upon their treasure.
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After five other Martian exiles discover Saul and Mark in their cave, the group argues all throughout the night about what to do with Mark. As Saul predicted, each man proves eager to keep the visitor’s talents to themselves. The sleek conference hall and marble table conjured by Mark contrast with the men’s disheveled, filthy appearance, which Bradbury highlights in this moment to suggest the extent to which they have been grotesquely distorted by both their isolation and immense greed. That the men fix their eyes “upon their treasure” again reflects that, in their selfishness, they fail to see Mark Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at.
“The rest of the week I’m to be left strictly alone, do you hear?” Mark told them. A little should be better than nothing. If you don’t obey, I won’t perform at all.” […]
“Let me talk,” said Johnson. “He’s telling us what he’ll do. Why don’t we tell him! Are we bigger than him, or not? And him threatening not to perform! Well, just let me get a sliver of wood under his toenails and maybe burn his fingers a bit with a steel file, and we’ll see if he performs! Why shouldn’t we have performances, I want to know, every night in the week?”
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To end the men’s arguments, Mark rationally proposes a schedule that allots each of them an hour of his talents a week, while also providing Mark himself with some much-needed solitude. Rather than accept this reasonable offer, however, one of the men, Johnson, declares that the others simply force Mark to do whatever they want. Having only a little of Mark is not enough; he wants to wring Mark’s talent dry. In their greed, the men have again dehumanized Mark, reducing him to a performer who must cater to the other men’s desires. Johnson’s readiness to use physical torture to Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque
The men gazed suspiciously at each other with little bright animal eyes. What was spoken was true. They saw each other in the days to come, surprising one another, killing—until that last lucky one remained to enjoy the intellectual treasure that walked among them.
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After Johnson proposes forcing Mark to do the men’s bidding, Mark declares that none of the men can trust one another at all; as soon as they turn their backs, the others will strike in an effort to keep Mark’s “treasure” to themselves. Greed has no only driven the men to deny Mark his humanity and commit violence against him, but it has also robbed them of their ability to trust their only companions on Mars. This is an especially ironic and tragic result given the desperate isolation and loneliness of life in quarantine. This moment instills the story with Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur
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Johnson Character Timeline in The Visitor
The timeline below shows where the character Johnson appears in The Visitor. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
“The Visitor”
One of the men, Johnson, proposes that they instead force Mark to perform, and torture him if he refuses. They...
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Mark urges the others not to listen to Johnson, calling the man crazy and asserting that as soon as the others let their guards...
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...too late. At this, the others jump up and wildly try to search each other. Johnson pulls the gun out of his jacket and shoots another man, Smith, in the chest....
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...City around them. The men grow confused in the midst of the blossoming city, yet Johnson keeps firing his gun. Saul rushes to tackle Johnson to the ground and wrench away...
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