Summary: The Martian By Andy Weir

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The Martian
Andy Weir
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“The Martian” by Andy Weir tells the story about a manned mission to Mars goes catastrophically wrong, and an astronaut named Mark Watney was left stranded on the harsh, barren and unforgiving planet. Yet despite all of the odd up against him, Mark uses his wits and humour to try and survive. Meanwhile, back on Earth, NASA and all of Earth unites together to try and save a man’s life twelve light-minutes away.
One aspect of the novel that I really enjoyed was Weir’s writing style and how he had created the lovable protagonist. The majority of the book was written in Watney’s perspective in the form of log entries. Each time there is a log entry, something different happens, and there is no possible foreshadowing …show more content…

F***ed.” However, by Log Entry: Sol 118, Mark Watney gains much more confidence, takes up a much more tone, and even disobeys NASA’s instructions. “My conversation with NASA about the water reclaimer was boring and riddled with technical details. So I’ll …show more content…

In Mark’s last log entry, he said: “The cost of my survival must have been hundreds of millions of dollars. All to save on dorky botanist. Why bother? Well, okay. I know the answer to that. Part of it might be what I represent: progress, science, and the interplanetary future we’ve dreamed of for centuries. But really, they did it because every human being has a basic instinct to help each other out.” Everything that had just been said was true. NASA and their crew had months of long hard days of work with sleepless nights, modifying multi-million-dollar equipment. The Chinese Space agency gave up their state-of-the-art, revolutionary research drone worth years of research, as a resupply ship, and they fear they will never receive the same amount of funding again. To give up so much to save one man’s life is moving and emotional, and I really felt attached to every single event in the story. I feel I can relate to this sort of situation. When I was in hospital after breaking my jaw, I received a lot of support from my peers. My football team always wished me well in the Facebook chat group, the entire Oliphant house wrote me a “get well soon” card, and I had plenty of family members and friends visiting me while I was in the ward. That really meant a lot to me mentally and emotionally, and it would have been completely different

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