The main character is mark watney. The beginning of the book starts off in 2035 on mars and they are in a really bad sand storm and the crew that is on mars has to evacuate and as everyone is on the spaceship mark is about to get on when a satellite hits him and knocked him unconscious and the crew presumes he's dead so they had to take off without him. He awakens when his suite is telling him he is almost out of oxygen. He has a breach in his suit so he has to take care of that. When he's finished he goes back to the base.. So he is on mars all by himself and has to survive on his own. He has enough food to survive if he rations it off but he has a plan to grow vegetables on mars to survive and he uses human feces to use as fertilizer to help them grow. He successfully grows potatoes using the fertilizers which the potatoes will help him survive longer if he needed too.but their becomes a breach in the walls where he is growing the potato and it kills all the plants and he is devastated
Important Themes & Symbols
One theme of the martian is isolation i find this interesting because not very often do people find themselves isolated especially in this world isolation could change a person's mind set some people began to hallucinate and talk to objects as if they were people some people live in isolation so long that when they try to come back to the real world it is very hard for them and it could feel strange at some times.isolation can sometimes lead to death and or suicide because some people just can't take being isolated that they think taking their life would be the best way out of their crazy warped mind.i feel that the longer someone is in the state of isolation that they begin to forget a lot of things like for example they could forget how to speak their native language because their lack of human contact Or forget simple table manners of where to use the restroom or even lack of respect toward other people.total isolation can be a vary dangourause thing to have to deal with