The Martian

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The Martian




We see that Mark gets stuck on another planet called and Mars and how this ties into the context of an imagined future is how he deals with his crisis when everything goes wrong.

So with fiction, we understand that going to Mars is not an option yet and for this book to set the entire atmosphere on that planet is stretching that idea but fits perfectly with this genre. So we are asked about imagined future and this scenario is perfect because number 1.) Mars is habitable 2.) We don’t have the tools to go there. 3.) We are not ready or equipped for such a crazy mission. All this plays into the idea of the “future.” This is obvious in the novel because if anything goes wrong, he didn’t really have what it took to survive. So as always with something that is not planned, the character has to improvise and make due of what he has. This is very typical in a fiction story when something goes wrong.


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