The Martian Chronicles: A Literary Analysis

The Martian is arguably one of my favorite books because of the fantastic tone and character development. The Martian follows Mark Watney, a scientist who majored in botany and mechanical science. He get stranded on mars after a dust storm knocks out communications with NASA and the rest of his crew leaves when they believe he is dead from shrapnel in the storm.

The beginning of this book starts with Mark Watney a mechanical engineer and botanist describing his current situation, how mars missions work and how he managed to get into his predicament of being stranded on mars alone. For some of the basics, he is on Aries 3 the third mission that has sent humans to mars. All of the use a really big ship to get there and back and by the time they get to mars 13 pre supply missions will have sent everything they will need onto the Martian ground.

They are labelled as sols and count up since Mark has landed on Mars. The novel is mostly set up from the perspective of Mark in the past tense as he is writing about his day with the events happening earlier in the day for example when talking about a conversation “I told NASA what I did. Our (paraphrased) conversation was: Me: “I took it apart, found the problem, and fixed it.” NASA: “Dick.”. The book also has a third person point of view put into play when the perspective changes to look at events happening on earth this is evident when NASA is worried about Mark’s mental health “He’s stuck out there. He thinks he’s totally alone and that we all gave up on him. What kind of effect does that have on a man’s psychology?” He turned back to Venkat. “I wonder what he’s thinking right now.” the switching of the perspectives gives the novel more of a modern feel to it. The overall tone of the Martian is humorous and sarcastic and can be seen by both NASA and Mark in multiple parts of the novel. At NASA discussing Mark’s progress a worker said “'I remember when you were shy.'” to which was followed up with “'I'm space paparazzi now. The attitude comes with the job.”. Mark is also very sarcastic and humorous especially when talking about various objects such as duct tape “Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”. The mood of the story is pretty suspenseful as many things go wrong in trying to rescue Mark, and Mark’s expeditions across Mars. Despite all the bad things happening it is miraculous that Mark even keeps his positive outlook on life on Mars as he said “I guess you could call it a "failure", but I prefer the term "learning experience".” which is very surprising considering everything he has been

Every story has at least one theme, and The Martian is no exception. This chapter will explain what some of those themes are, and explain what they mean.

The Martian is a book about an astronaut named Mark Watney, he is a botanist and mechanical engineer stranded on Mars by his crew after they witnessed him being impaled in a Martian sandstorm by some debris. This all happened during Watney and his crews attempt to leave Mars due to increasingly powerful windstorms. Watney somehow survived being hit by the debris and now that his crew has left him he is stranded on Mars on his own. Watney must find a way to survive and make communication with NASA. In order to survive Watney has to come up with a bunch of genius and crazy inventions. Watney must do this to survive long enough for NASA to rescue him. Some of Watney's inventions include: farming potatoes using water made from rocket fuel, modifying

Ransom meets all sorts of martians and becomes immersed in the culture and language of this planet. Ransom is then faced with being called to meet a certain spirit of the planet and makes a small journey in search of this being. Through his experiences on Malacandra, Ransom grows in courage, shows his curiosity and exceptional intelligence.

The book starts with the main character who is also the narrator, and isn't given any specific name. He meets up with Ogilvy an astronomer who shows the narrator that there are some strange flashing lights on mars, he dismisses this fact as volcanoes or asteroids hitting mars. He also doesn't name a few other important people; his wife who he drops off in the beginning, an artillery man who

Is set on Mars apart from a couple of chapters back on earth Mark also goes to different locations on Mars for example he takes a 3,200 km journey across Mars to try find a site of a different Mars landing, on this journey Mark goes through canyons,craters and other different terrain across Mars. The theme of the book is survival with a touch of comedy throughout the novel.

Imagine exploring a vast, unexplored land with some friends when they leave the island because of an emergency, without you, except that “unexplored land” is Mars. That is what happened to Mark Watney in The Martian. He is trapped on Mars and tries to the best of his ability to survive. He learns to grow food, partly because he is a botanist, and travels over 3000 miles to the next Ares mission site. Ares is the name of the missions to Mars. Where he will fly to orbit and meet his crewmates who flew back to rescue him. The same storyline is followed in the movie with some of the most important parts of the book still included. The movie is an accurate representation of the book because the main character does not change, a quote that was left

this situation bears a striking resemblance to the europeans colonizing the Americas in the early fourteen-hundreds, leaving the indians to feel alienated on their own soil only for it to be populated by strangers of a different color. Bradbury paints a beautiful picture of the fleets of people coming to mars “They came because they were afraid or unafraid, because they were happy or unhappy, because they felt like pilgrims or did not feel like pilgrims.” (Bradbury, 73). The people who came from earth all had different intentions, no man wanted to do exactly what he did on earth. Some people came to make a difference and others came just to settle down; what they did not understand was that there was a reason men were not born on mars. The air was thin, despite this being a sign for man to stay off the planet, man kind decided to “Better” it by planting trees to make it a more suitable environment for the trespassers. Benjamin Driscoll, recognizing that the martian air was much too thin for breathing, decided to spend his time planting trees on the new world.

In the Martian Chronicles there were multiple people who had different views on the way they should use Mars. For example Jeff Spender, can see that his men do not have respect for this planet, so he decides that he should kill off the crew in an effort to preserve Mars. Father Peregrine was a priest and wants to convert the Martians to Christianity and is ready to adapt and change around them. He doesn’t want to change them because he understands that he is on their planet.

This book is a novel about the fictional mission >>> and the rescue mission of astronaut/botanist/engineer Mark Watney. Mark, left for dead by his crew, wakes up on planet Mars and must figure out how to survive with only the ruins of the spacecraft left behind. Great details that show the writer really thought through and had reviews about all the science. The writing, while a bit stilted and unnecessarily technical at times, I can say is written in an authentic nerdy tone (I am an engineer by trade).

Another sign of the Martians’ humanity is their formation of familial units and complex societies. The second chapter of the novel, “Ylla”, shows the dynamic between what appears to be a married Martian couple by the names Yll and Ylla, who live in a rural house “by the edge of an empty sea” (2). In the 1950s, which was when this novel was finalized and published, the ideal family dynamic was made of a working husband and a housewife, and it was the wife’s responsibility to keep the home spotless and cater to the desires of the husband. The married Martians fit into the 1950’s ideal marriage when Yll makes Ylla go into the city with him for entertainment after Ylla began day dreaming about Nathaniel York (6-7), and again when Yll tells Ylla to forsake going to her friend Pao’s house in favor of Ylla staying at home and waiting to entertain Doctor Nlle (12). Since Bradbury was inventing his own society on a different planet, he could have set up the family structure in any way he wanted, but he purposefully made the dynamic parallel to what the contemporary humans would have been accustomed to seeing, forcing the

In the book The Martian, Mark Watney is an astronaut who is left behind on Mars and has to try to survive and get back to Earth without dying, and to get Earth to realize he is alive.

Herbert George Wells, also called H.G. Wells, was the author of The War of the Worlds. H.G. Wells published this novel in 1898. “H.G. Wells was a writer of science-fiction works—including The Time Machine and War of the Worlds—who had a great influence on our vision of the future” (Biography, 2016). In The War of the Worlds, Mars has reached its last stage of exhaustion, in effect its inhabitants need a new home. The Martians have landed on Earth, and they do not come in peace.