“He’s stuck out there. He thinks he’s totally alone and that we all gave up on him.”(Weir 63) Andy Weir wrote The Martian, and the character Mark Watney has an interesting life. Mark is always struggling and in need of something. However he never gives up, which makes Mark’s life interesting, but not as interesting as Weir’s himself. Weir uses many elements to craft an interesting story, one of which is suspense, but he has an incredible sense of humor as well, and has led a very interesting life.
Weir’s life, with its tosses and turns, is almost as interesting as his books. The son of an engineer mother and a physicist father, he spent his youth in Davis, California (“Learn about Andy Weir.”). Weir was first hired as a programmer for a national