Andy Weir's 'The Martian'

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“The Martian is everything you want from a novel.” Said by Hugh Howey. The Martian is written by Andy Weir, a novel about one of the six astronauts, Mark Watney, gets left behind on Mars. He uses all the limited capacities to survive and seek for the way back home. This romance narrative has been remediate into a movie which demonstrates the obstacles more vividly and delivers an idea of people should never give up themselves through the whole story’s childhood, initiation, underworld and temptation. Watney wakes up in a silent frozen red desert—the Mars. He supposes to work on his mission with his crewmates like the days before. However, the other five went back to the earth last night because of a fierce storm. Now he is the only one and the first one be alone on this planet. He pulls out the projectile which sticks into his body and makes his crewmates presume he is dead. Watney gets to know the challenges he is facing as this narrative’s childhood. …show more content…

Since it is a foreign planet, food becomes the major issue for Watney. He gets some numbered potatoes in the emergency food storage, it can supply him for about forty days. However at the day he gets back home, is four years later. People will try whatever they can to survive when they are in a hopeless situation, so Watney uses his intelligence and courage to grow these potatoes by burning fire inside the tent on Mars. He is the only person who successfully give a newborn life to Mars. He realizes the real opponent, utilizes the limited resources and starts his new life on the unfamiliar new