Humor In Andy Weir's The Martian

The red planet is being colonized by one man trapped on Mars. Mark Watney, the lone colonizer of Mars, lives inside his HAB (Habitat) stranded on Mars. His team had left him, consequently he now has to survive until he can travel home, but he doesn’t have enough food. Mark dreams that he will make it home safe and sound, although he thinks he knows he won’t; but he still tries. The author of The Martian has led an interesting life, as well as his main protagonist Mark Watney. Through Andy Weir’s writing, fictional astronaut Mark can incorporate humor in a science fiction reality, which is difficult to do. The Martian is interesting, but that is probably because its author is just as interesting. California was where Weir had been born and raised, the only child of an accelerator physicist father and an electrical-engineer mother who divorced when he was eight (“Andy Weir.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation). …show more content…
Mars is a gigantic desert, so it has many sandstorms. That means the rocks are smooth, but one must still go over them. “The undercarriage of the rover is taller than any of the rocks around here, and the hills are gently sloping affairs, smoothed by eons of sandstorms” (Weir, 96). Driving on a deserted desert planet is cool, and dangerous, therefore it is probably inhabited with aliens. One of the first Mars rovers was Pathfinder, so it would just be boring without it. Pathfinder delivered a stationary lander, including a surface rover to the Red Planet. “By my reckoning, I’m about 100 kilometers from Pathfinder” (Weir, 97). Pathfinder being one of the first rovers on a different planet, then Pathfinder would have even more Sci-fi throughout its’ indescribable veins . Mark wants to find it so that he can communicate with NASA. Overall The Martian has a good amount of Science Fiction incorporated into it; being on a different planet and