The Tragic Hero In Andy Weir's The Martian

In a distant land, where sandstorms ravage the area, and there is nothing to eat but potatoes and caffeine pills, the Astronaut Mark Watney goes through many morechallanges than this, in this fantastic book, The Martian. Mark Watney was as a man of many talents. He was a good survivor, and can survive many would-be fatal disasters. This planet, Mars, uncolonized, and only partially discovered, makes Mark face many challenges. In the end, the reader will be surprised that Mark is still even alive. That is, if he is still alive. But most importantly, the reader needs to take some lessons from this book. One of the main things in this book is that everyone should always believe in themselves, and maybe they’ll get to the end! The Martian is a good book that contains elements like humor, suspense, and also an interesting author.

Even though there’s not much story and background revealed about Mark in The Martian, the author, Andy Weir, has an led interesting enough life that it really makes up for it. ANDY WEIR was first hired as a programmer for a national laboratory at age fifteen and has been working as a software engineer ever since (“Menu.”). Andy Weir is very smart. But, he also has other talents. One of them is; he … mixes a mean cocktail. He {also} lives in California …show more content…
The interesting thing about this is that Andy Weir didn’t have to think at all to write down the lines of Mark Watney, because he says that he wrote the things he would say, because he’s just like Watney. Andy Weir was very smart with adding humor into the book. It makes it more interesting, and readers will just absolutely love the characters. The author also chose a very good setting to write a book with suspense, because on Mars, anything could happen. With NASA planning to colonize Mars, maybe it’s not that bad of an idea to learn how to live on