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Compare And Contrast Zero Hour And Who's There

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There are many comparisons one could make between the two exceptional survival- horror stories, Zero Hour and Who’s There. Also, many differences between the seemingly happy world of Zero Hour and the dark eerie environment of Who’s There. Each plot has an unexpected twist that will mess with your emotions and will leave you wanting to know what happens next. So let’s dive into the deceptive world of Sci-Fi with “Zero Hour” and “Who’s There!”

To start “Zero Hour” starts by throwing you into your everyday neighborhood set in the future. We observe kids playing a game called “Invasion” with not a normal kid named Drill. At first we think this is just a neighborhood activity until we find out it is actually a worldwide activity. The premise of the “game” is that Martians are using kids to invade Earth. This so called game goes haywire when it turns out this is no game and the Martians have actually invaded Earth. How the story finishes is with the parents of a young girl being trapped in the attic with the Martians in the doorway. …show more content…

The book starts with the main protagonist at his job in a space observatory when he notices a signal on the radar, which turns out to be an old U.S. satellite. The protagonist then decides to go and retrieve it because the head supervisor worries it might harm navigation. Once the main character gets into his space suit he hurries off to retrieve the satellite. But then he starts worrying about a previous astronaut which had died before in a similar space suit, and he believes that the suit he is in is the one of which the previous space man died in. He also feels things touching him within the suit. In a worried rage he smacks his head on the control panel and goes unconscious until he wakes up to find that the rescue team saved him and found cats within his space suit’s

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