Martian

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. The chapter was called “The Martian” and in it tells, Tom is Lafarge’s son, but the twist is that he has been dead for a long time. Lafarge and his wife found “Tom” outside of their houses. One day, Tom disappeared and another family’s…

The Martian is a novel written by Andy Weir. This book is the diary of a astronaut stranded on Mars, named Mark Watney; who consistently found ingenious solutions for the many problems he faced. Mark Watney was not left on Mars for any malicious reasons, but because of a series unfortunate of events, his fellow astronauts thought he was killed in a violent storm and had no choice but to leave him. This novel is in the science fiction genre and is absolutely thrilling from start to finish.…

Final Paper: David Lewis Prompt In his work, Mad Pain and Martian Pain, David Lewis argues that we can apprehend the concept of pain by applying an ambiguous, yet effective Materialist Mixed Theory of mind. The Mixed Theory of mind includes an Identity Theory and a Functionalist Theory—which Lewis must necessarily accept in order to have his theory of pain. Phenomenologists argue that Lewis fails to account for the experience of pain—the what it is like to be in pain and to feel pain. I will…

Harry Bittering’s perspective changes from ‘nothing is safe here; got to get back to earth’ to ‘this is nice. Where did all the humans go?’. His change is influenced by the martian ‘poison’ which changes him into a martian. Anything on the martian land gets tainted in it, and he gets infected as well. However, he had the most amount of resistance, for it says, “No! cried part of himself, deep down, put away, locked tight, suffocating. No! No!” (Bradbury, 488). This change says that identity may…

Nature rescues the humans from the Martians by bacteria, “... the Martians— DEAD!—slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared …” (273). The humans were presumably immune to the bacteria that the aliens were not knowledgeable of, and vulnerable too. Furthermore, the aliens portray the mechanistic world by scientifically advanced technology. As mentioned before, the heat-ray is a device that can instantly destroy anything with the use of high…

The film we studied was The Martian directed by Ridley Scott. The three main points I will be elaborating more on is the ‘positivity’ of Mark Watney, the ‘Responsible leader’ of Commander Lewis and the ‘Intelligence’ of Benjamin Vogel. These are the 3 important qualities which lead to the successful rescue of Mark Watney. I believe that these are the 3 most important qualities found throughout the film, and they will be the ones i will use to construct my essay. Using them to emphasise the the…

themes, including isolation, survival and the role of science can be explored in connection to a change in setting. Written in 2011 The Martian is a science fiction novel written by Andy Weir. It follows the survival story of Mark Watney, an astronaut left behind on Mars, after his mission was aborted. In comparison Moon, a film released in 2000 by director Duncan Jones explores chosen isolation through the astronaut Sam Bell completing a three year job overseeing the mining of helium on the…

The short story “Naming of Names” by Ray Bradbury is about the protagonist, Harry, who moved to Mars with his family and immediately doesn’t like the change. Resisting change causes more harm than good. When his friends tell him, ”You’re getting thinner Harry”, he responds I’m not. They tell him, “and taller”, he yells, “liar!”. Harry loses some of his social friends due to his bad behavior. Harry adjusts to change very poorly and ends up hurting himself and other people. As soon as Harry…

A silvery disk plummets from the sky crashing loudly into the ground below. A panel of the ship slid open, smoke poured out from inside the ship. Out of the smoke stepped a small green creature. It had large black eyes and smooth green skin. It’s a Martian, sent to explore Earth. The Martian slowly walks down a ramp from his ship to the ground below. The ground is different here than it is on Mars. It is brown and covered with green plants. It is much softer than the rocky soil of Mars. The…

Affects Other Cultures Ethnocentrism is so ingrained in our society that we try to ignore the fact that we are cultural oppressors to others. We as humans put ourselves and our own culture on a pedestal. If you do not identify as us then you must become one of us or at least rearrange your culture to fit to ours. In the novel, The Martian Chronicles, as well as other nonfiction sources such as Language Chauvinism, and Coca-Cola It's Beautiful the thematic message displayed throughout these…