Mark Watney: A Short Story

In 2035, NASA astronaut Mark Watney, a botanist and mechanical engineer, has been left stuck on Mars after the crew of the Ares 3 mission were forced to evacuate from their Martian habitat (in Acidalia Planitia due to an intense dust storm with high winds. Watney was impaled by satellite dish during the evacuation and believed dead. His injury are minor, but with no way to contact Earth, Watney must rely on his own skills to survive. He begins a log of his experiences for those who might discover it long after his death. Watney begins growing potatoes in the crew's Martian habitat (or Hab) and burns hydrazine to make water. NASA discovers that he is alive when satellite images of the landing site show evidence of his activities; they begin working on ways to rescue him, but withhold the news of his survival from the rest of the Ares III crew, on their way back to Earth aboard the Hermes spacecraft, so as not to distract them.

[Mark] So I took it apart” (Weir 153). Clearly, Mark is a sarcastic, smart-aleck astronaut who has obviously been alone on Mars for a long time, carefully crafted by Andy Weir for humorous purposes. Another funny quote from the book is when the people at NASA have just found out that Mark is alive: “[A NASA employee] I wonder what he is thinking right now? [Mark] How come Aquaman can control whales? They’re mammals!

Mark Watney, Ares 3’s botanist, is left behind on Mars after his crew thought he was dead. Watney will have to survive on Mars until help arrives. Watney first calculates that he needs more food even though he is rationing his food. He decides to grow the raw potatoes that were originally for Thanksgiving. He first gets the dirt, and turns Martian soil into fertile dirt by populating the soil with bacteria. Then, he plants the potatoes. That way he can have more food. He is also making water out of hydrazine, which comes from leftover rocket fuel. On earth, satellite images show that Watney is still alive, and they start to find to help him. Watney then sets out on a journey to find Pathfinder, a Martian rover that lost communication with Earth

It is a decision that most individuals lacking his purposefulness and intelligence would be defeated. It is something that took courage and self-reliance to do. I hate to admit it but if I were left on Mars all alone, I would have a very different outcome. I would most likely have some sort of panic attack resulting in actions that would end up killing myself. If someday I ever ended up in space my mental ability would not allow me to have the ingenuity to come up with a plan to save myself and sustain me for up to four years on Mars. Mark used his knowledge and his botanist experience to live on Mars. If I were stranded I don’t know how useful my crafting skills would be to my survival. “Then I detached twenty-eight panels from the solar farm and dragged them to the rover. I spent four hours stacking them this way and that. The poor rover looked like the Beverly Hillbillies truck. Nothing I did worked

It all started in 1986 in the small city of Fort Dodge, IA. Mark Block, now a 49 year young man, and a former track and cross country standout. He was driving his car when all of a sudden an accident occurred and he lost control and went off into an embankment and brutally flipped his car. It was a near-fatal car accident that should've killed him if it wasn’t for the grace of God. God wasn’t ready for him to pass and had a plan for him, a plan that would not just change the course of his life but in the process help others along the way.

Over the town of Ledwin, in the middle of a particularly hot July, the sky flickered while the waning moon hung in its tent. It was not the stars that shined deep across the cosmos, or the flames of a meteorite breaking through Earth's attenuated barrier. No, the very sky itself became bright, shining as if the sun was antagonized into a fearsome rage, then dark, as if it were subdued by a much more terrifying presence. It was like some sort of anomalous, uncanny light switch was being pushed, flipping the sun on, then off. On, then off. Alternating between levels of such extremity that it was a miracle the air itself didn’t catch fire and then freeze over, for it was not temperature that changed, only

The rest of Mark’s crew assumed he was dead based on readings from his space suit, so they had no choice but to leave him. Mark knows everyone has given up on him, but continues to try to keep himself alive. What he does not know, is that NASA was able to see him on the satellites and is exhausting all their resources to bring him home safely. At one time or another everyone feels completely alone and forgotten about, when in reality they have family and friends who will do anything they can to help, they just do not see

Mark Watney was an astronaut that survived on another planet by himself . He survived by using the things he had and made them last for a very long time . He had a very difficult task that he had to accomplish . In doing this he demonstrated patience, risk-taking and knowledge on a variety of things. Mark watney was a very patient man . Mark watney was also a risk taker & very knowledgeable .

Dan Howell was often considered the life of the party ever since freshman year. Some people found it charming the way that he would dress, talk and party, others found it distasteful and wild. That didn't matter though, all that mattered to him at the moment was the party that he was at and the drink in his hand. Luckily they had plenty of Dan's favorite drink, willing him to stay at the party longer even when it started to fade out. Right when Dan was about to walk out, his cup in hand someone pulled him back in to play seven minutes in heaven. Not a bad group of people, he thought to himself as his eyes scanned the group of people who were playing. Dan was impressed when he saw Phil Lester sitting right across from him with a smug expression

Casey waddles in a faster pace, getting closer and closer to the prancing puppy. Once it is within close range, he throws the towel on it.

I am forced out of bed before the sun gets the chance by the high-pitched screaming of my alarm. Working against the clock, my brain fights the last-minute task of arranging all my clothes into a suitcase. The taxi ride to the airport is all but a tired blur. With a long hug and a bittersweet speech from my parents, I am off on my own to break new boundaries. The airport and I are no strangers.

We don’t exactly know what we’re doing. No clue. As soon as we walk out the door we are goners but that doesn’t matter. I got my “map”, if you could call it that, in one hand and a tree branch in the other, waiting for. Maybe I had to much to drink. Or too little. Either way, I’m not ready for this to happen.

Mark Watney a NASA astronaut on a mission on mars, gets stranded and he is in the middle of no where. I believe he thinks about his isolation a lot because he knows how small and insignificant he is and how far away from home he actually is. He probably has those lonely times where you feel like you are not worth anything. I think the whole stress and anxiety and any health problems whatsoever don't show on him.

Another theme that can be found in The Martian is in high risk situations, it is important to keep calm and use your head. During the book, Mark was blown up and thrown around multiple times. In a lot of these situations, he had only mere minutes or seconds to live, and had to stay as calm and think as straight as humanly possible in order to survive. If he was to panic in any situations as high risk as those, he would have definitely died. If you think about it, this could apply to anyone’s life. If might not always be a life-or-death situation, but it is a good decision-making quality to

A descriptive image of Watney’s image is presented. You can almost think of the perspective as if the blood was trickling down on your body right now.