The Martian Chapter Summary

Improved Essays
The Martian- Summary

In the novel, The Martian, written by Andy Weir, is based upon an astronaut and botanist called Mark Watney. The novel is about Mark doing everything he could to survive using his remarkable knowledge, meanwhile having to bear the worst-case scenarios going through his head, hard labor, problems after problems and the most painful, loneliness. This novel not only contains scientific facts and humor, but also being genuine or realistic, which brought many lessons to learn from.
The story started off with Mark cursing and explaining his situation, while in amidst all that having to bear a minor wound that was the sole source of his survival. Mark is part of a manned mars mission group called ARES 3. Due to a massive sandstorm

Related Documents

  • Great Essays

    Ray Bradbury has been considered one of America’s greatest science-fiction writer’s. His work often satires human nature and shows his reader’s the flaws found deep within the individual. Not only is Bradbury a novelist, but he is also a, short-story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. He was born Ray Douglas Bradbury on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. He was the third son in the family.…

    • 2173 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Director Ridley Scott's science fiction film 'The Martian' slammed the box office over the weekend with a healthy $55 million. The film nearly surpassed the 2013 science fiction thriller film directed and produced by Alfonso Cuarón, 'Gravity.' As the Gravity film has the highest-grossing October debut in history. The reviews that expressed great pleasure over the film strengthened Ridley Scott's released of The Martian, as the critics also called the movie among the director's best and heaped admiration on the performance of Matt Damon as an astronaut stranded on Mars.…

    • 382 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Martian, by Andy Weir, is a science fiction book following the story of Mark Watney, an astronaut stranded on Mars after being abandoned by his crewmates. Without any way of telling NASA, or his crewmates, that he is alive, Mark is forced to rely on himself for survival. Throughout the story, Mark struggles to overcome a food shortage and a tear in the Hab. His perseverance and sheer will to never give up is one of the main themes for this heart-pounding book.…

    • 610 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Robinson lives about 1 year on the island, he starts to write a journal. To record the time, Robinson make a cross, he cuts to note the date everyday. Robinson also brings some pens, paper, books, Bibles, a dog, and 2 cats from the ship. Robinson learns to make and use some simple tools, he uses them to build things that is more advanced like chairs, a iron axe, a wood shovel, he even digs a cave nearby the tent. However, Robinson's cave fells soon; luckly, he does not on his cave when the cave fells.…

    • 347 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The story begins with the main character, Walter Myers, describing his background and his family's past. He talks about how his great-great uncle Lucas D. Dennis was put into slavery before the Civil War. After the Civil War he moved to Harpers Creek and built a house there. Eventually his family merged with another family called the Greens. Later a woman in the Greens family gave birth to Walter.…

    • 1501 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In Edgar Rice Burroughs’s story, “Under the Moons of Mars,” there are many instances of both fantasy and science fiction. When the narrator is describing things, he talks in a very scientific way. When describing a creature from Mars, he tells the reader, “the feet themselves were heavily padded… (which) is a characteristic feature of the fauna of Mars” (151). This is the way a scientist would talk about an animal, not the way a layperson tells someone about what they saw. The narrator also talks about the environment around him in a scientific way, saying, “my muscles… played the mischief with me in attempting for the first time to cope with the lesser gravitation and lower air pressure on Mars” (150).…

    • 380 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    However, Mark Watney is not the first person on Mars. He is part of a group that is the third crew to explore Mars. The physical setting of the book influenced the character greatly, due to the fact that the physical setting was all he had to survive with. With Martian soil, Watney creates a potato farm, and with his engineering skills he creates water by literately combining oxygen and hydrogen (almost killing himself in the process). The climate of Mars has an effect on Watney as well.…

    • 320 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The connection between my article Mars, the red planet and The Martian by Andy Weir is that Mark Watney uses Mars’s two moons Phobos and Deimos to help him travel to the Pathfinder so he can communicate with NASA for help. When he travels at night he can’t see any of the landmarks like the craters to help him know the direction he is going so he uses Phobos and Deimos to help him travel. “Mars doesn’t have a magnetic field. So I navigate by Phobos. It whips around Mars so fast it actually rises and sets twice a day, running west to east.…

    • 467 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Christian theme of the inviolable dignity of the individual human being is present throughout Ridley Scott’s film “The Martian.” In the film, NASA astronaut Mark Watney is on Mars with a team of other astronauts. The team gets caught in a huge storm, and Watney is swept away. His team thinks that he is dead, so they leave. Watney survived being swept away, but then he is stranded on Mars and has to survive.…

    • 337 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Title: “Taming The Star Runner” The title makes me wonder what kind of horse The Star Runner was. It sparks my interest and makes me also wonder how he tamed the Star Runner. The title fits well with the book because in the book the main character was untamable like the Star Runner. I was excited to read another S.E. Hinton book.…

    • 705 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    They were in such a rush they didn’t notice Mark was not there until they got to the ship. They had to leave Mark behind because they did not see him and they did not have much time. After the crew abandons Mark on Mars, it becomes clear that this is a story of survival. The Martian by Andy Weir uses elements like suspense, humor, and sarcasm, while Weir incorporates a lot about himself at the same time.…

    • 717 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Fear is basically just an active imagination that comes to a person when creating the worst possible scenario. Imagining gruesome scenarios is kind of like a comfort because then you know what to expect. People don’t normally find themselves being happy when they are getting kidnapped. Fear allows people to imagine an unnatural scenario, which can blind them to act irrationally and unreasonably. In the book, The Martian Chronicles, written by Ray Bradbury, a chapter was introduced to us in a new perspective.…

    • 1447 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Introduction H. G. Wells has long been considered the father of the science fiction genre with the publication of his first book, The Time Machine in 1895. This novel details a narrator’s travel through time. The unidentified narrator tells of his voyages through time to house guests of various professional backgrounds except one of religious background. To explain, there is not a minister or priest situated among the house guest. This essay will address the absence of religion in the novel and how it is reflects a major issue of Victorian Age: science vs. religion.…

    • 2163 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    What Keeps A Man Sane - The Martian Blog Post Humanities 10 Isolation could contribute to stress, loneliness, a decline in health and mental breakdown. In the book The Martian, written by Andy Weir, astronaut Mark Watney was stranded on Mars after failing to escape a disastrous sandstorm. This brave botanist was isolated from the entire mankind; he was separated from his crew, and lost the ability to contact them or the Hermes. Mark miraculously survived the sandstorm and made it to safety. However, he was faced with even more difficult challenges; he only had a limited amount of food and water, and a declining amount of oxygen.…

    • 720 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Throughout the whole trip on Mars, Watney remained happy (most of the time) and never got down on himself even if he was in the worst situations. For example, in the book when one of the HAB ( the house that NASA sent for the crew to live in) walls gets blown up, Mark doesn’t get upset instead he makes a joke about it when he is in the process of fixing it. “ ‘Yes, of course duct tape works… Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped.’” (220) This text evidence is just one example of how Mark adds humor to tough situation. His humorous personality helped him to survive on the red planet of Mars because Mark could always crack a joke even in the worst…

    • 740 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays