On Friday, we had our third Lit Circle, and our main focus was writing style. Andy Weir, the author of The Martian wrote in a way that nobody in my group had seen before. We talked about the point of view of the novel, and how Weirs writing style impacts how the book is read. Lastly we each picked 1 quote that stood out in that section of the book. When our group discussed the point of view of this story it raised questions due to the fact that we had never seen this style of writing before. The novel flipped between first person, to third person omniscient constantly. Weir used this changing of perspectives very well in my opinion. The changing of point of views allowed Weir to build large amounts of suspense rather than Watney just telling…show more content… The way that Mark Watney is written makes him impossible to dislike and this is due to the tone that Weir uses. Weir is able to keep Marks character extremely humorous and very serious at the same time, and he does this by using vulgar language and sarcasm for example when one of Marks supplies breaks he said “ Maybe I’ll post a consumer review, brought to surface of Mars, stopped working 0/10” (Watney 150). It was these types of comments Weir used to keep the reader intrigued. Also Weir scientifically explained all of Watneys choices which allow us to still believe what Watney is doing is in fact plausible and not impossible. Our group also talked about how our novel is character based and an escapist novel. We came to this conclusion based on the lack of interpretive ideas. Although, there are a few ethical ideas that some may consider this novel interpretive, I believe this novel was written with a main purpose of entertainment. We also decided that we thought it was a character based novel because everything in the novel depended on what Watney did and it was not reliant on a certain idea or thought. Finally the pacing of this novel in my mind is perfect. I really enjoyed action packed books where it’s not a long period of rest before somebody throws the protagonist a lime and says make lemonade. Weir constantly created new obstacles for Watney to overcome which kept the story fast paced and a great
