Diction In The Martian

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4.) The author’s diction and writing style goes a long way in character development,and in creating a contrast of tone in the text. During a significant portion of the book, there is a very logical and “matter of fact” type of tone. Mark uses the log writings as a place to explain the different problems that he is running into, and how they are solved. These make the audience not be able to identify any unexplained events that don’t make sense in the book. This contributes to the realistic story line and details used in the plot. There is also diction that is used to keep the book somewhat light hearted. Mark makes jokes throughout the logs about his situation which helps develop his character. The serious story that is supposed to be realistic, …show more content…
The way this book is written with a comfortable mix of sentence lengths creates a very smooth and unchallenging experience. The logs are written in a very informal tone. They are structured to make them sound like someone is talking to you, rather than writing a memoir. The creation of this normal, but not bad sounding, “talking language”, is successful because of the rhythm of the writing. The light humor and informal writing of the logs in this book maintains the human side of this book. Rather than this being only a formal story about the practical way to save a man from mars, this writing technique shifts it to also be about a story of survival, and the instinctual need for people to fight on, until they …show more content…
The use of figurative language seems to enhance the smoothness of the reading, mostly due to the way that the logs are written in the same way you would expect a character like Mark to talk, rather than objectively log events. There is a balance of lines that sound like someone having an informal conversation with themselves, and lines that are seriously evaluating the situation. There are also plenty examples of figurative language used on the third person perspective in this book from earth. These tend to usually be common idioms and expressions that keep the book from sounding to much like a non-fiction rescue mission, rather than a story that is supposed to read like a
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