The Martian

In this novel The Martian I observed and analyzed the unique situation of Mark Watney of being stranded on Mars from a terrible sandstorm while his crew flew off. I think in my opinion the reader is engaged and interested all the way through since most of it is based on Mark and his experience on surviving on Mars while trying to find a way back home to Earth. What I analyzed from this book was how Mark used some farming techniques from Earth on Mars that works and ensures his survival for a while. The book makes the reader think about how he/she would survive if he/she was in Mark’s situation and it creates a way of problem solving. The problem solving would relate to his survival and communication with NASA but the same would relate to the reader if the reader though about how he/she would survive on their own in the wild but even another planet to myself is far fetched for survival. Also my idea with this book as an observation would be how there is a sense of strategy with the survival within this novel. In that way Mark thinks of a strategy to survive long enough for his crew to save him but until then he finds so many ways of surviving until they save him. It also dives into exploration and mystery a bit but mainly the story makes the reader really think about how Mark can make it out of this difficult situation. With that in mind from observing the book I was thinking of certain strategies on how he can survive and how if he doesn’t survive how that would impact this story. This novel was interesting to me because it really makes the reader think of every outcome for the main character, bad or good and how it unravels or concludes throughout the entire story.