Summary Of 'The War Of The Worlds'

The War of the Worlds starts out when the narrator starts talking about how martins attacked the earth and the people of the earth never expected it. Then, the martin’s cylinders come crashing down on earth revealing martins that appear to not move so well. Next, the martins build tripods and attack everything they see. The narrator grabs his wife and they run and hide. Then, the narrator decides to go back towards the martins for many reasons. Now, the British Army is fighting the martins and loosing terribly. The British destroyed one tripod and the martins have come to town in them. The narrator now notices how deadly the martins are so he runs and hides again. While he’s hiding

War of the Worlds is a novel written by Herbert George (H.G.) Wells in the year 1898. It is a story of and alien invasion that takes place in London, England and how humanity as a whole come together in the toughest possible situation, against the odds, and in the face of adversity, and still come out victorious despite the countless numbers of dead. Destroyed buildings and landmarks. And at times loss of hope. In this report, I will be discussing three of the most important terms of the book: conflict, setting, and motif. The conflict, setting, and motif of War of the Worlds is: Man vs. Martian, early 20th century London, and Death (as the motif).

Despite their many differences, science fiction tales throughout history discuss many common themes. One of the most common themes told through science fiction deal with the foolishness of human beings. In The War of the Worlds, the narrator makes a lot of dumb choices, especially due to the fact that the choices he makes puts him in even more danger in the midst of an alien invasion. After taking his wife to Leatherhead, the narrator decides he must return to Woking, where they came from, to return his rented horse and buggy. Instead of staying with his wife to make sure she stays safe and away from harm, the narrator instead decides to go back to where the aliens are burning people with their heat rays and causing so much destruction. Why? Because he wants to return a horse and a cart. After running into the aliens again, the narrator decides to avoid their heat ray by jumping into the nearby river. After one of the tripods falls into the water, defeated, the narrator decides to

Despite its location, Dot’s Donut Shop was about to get famous. I mean, being the crash site for the second wave of aliens on earth can earn quite the reputation, and what are the odds I would be working there that very day? Well, to understand my position entirely, we need to go back to the beginning.

All great journeys are accompanied by a mental voyage as well as a physical one. Whether it’s learning about themselves, a great truth of the world, or the reality of life and love, characters gain more than simple mileage on the earth. H.G. Well’s The War of the Worlds is a stellar illustration of this principle. In the novel, aliens from Mars invade Earth, and the journey the narrator takes, as well as other characters, is depicted as the effects and reactions towards the resulting war between men and martians. War is shown as utter hell, and mass casualties are depicted in great detail. There is no doubt that war is a terrible thing. It changes innocent life-loving people to hardened, cold, and broken individuals. With the martians, there are rarely people left to tell the tale.

The 19th century was a transformative one in human history, resulting in changes of globalization through colonialism, numerous scientific achievements which led to industrialization, and an emergence of new philosophical thoughts which placed emphasis on human nature. The War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells, was a reflection of its time, and it shows the idea of imperialism at the time by exploring how the differences between Martians and humans causes a moral disconnect which was an allegory to express the British lack of empathy toward their colonies, how radical ideologies took advantage of that disconnect for their own profit, and why imperialism is morally hypocritical.

In 1914 the first World War broke out in the center of Europe which divided the great empires practically in half. On one side there was an alliance which was composed of the Germans who were allied with the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary were up against what was called the Triple Entente. This alliance originally consisted of Great Britain, France, Russia, and eventually after lots of deliberation, America. As battling began in the North Eastern part of France advancements in technology and a transition in battle tactics lead to millions of deaths. Trench warfare, a tactic created at the very beginning of WWI, was created essentially created September 15, 1914. Essentially what happened during this battle resulted in a longer and

“I might not have heard of the eruption at all had I not met Ogilvy,

In Part II, Glover discusses the tragic effects of war on the average person’s morality. This is done through morally distancing oneself from what events that are considered horrific or tragic. As soldiers and armies slowly distance themselves from close range combat with long range strikes such as missiles and drones, there is more acceptance of what is normally considered impermissible.

It then flips back the narrator's point of view and he is walking through London and notices that every think is looking very bland yet the town is functioning as usual. He makes it back to his old house and sees the food that he and the artillery man were eating. He feels sad but then through the door way he hears the voice of his wife and cousin greeting him as they walk through the doorway. He is overjoyed to see his beloved wife safe and back at

Although it was published seventeen years after my death, the novel War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells is a work of fiction that I would take great pleasure in reading. It would not be because of the futuristic tales of creatures from Mars that would make it so enjoyable, but instead the major themes that present themselves in the novel. It would be quite easy to discover that many of my ideas manifested themselves in Wells’ work. He drew many of his inspirations and ideas from our mutual friend, and his mentor, Thomas Henry Huxley. War of the Worlds helped perpetuate my work in a literary and fictional fashion, something that I greatly appreciate. I am Charles Darwin and although my passion is natural science, I have a feeling that this

The aftermath of the team’s artillery strike reveals the isolation one feels in dealing with the problems that occur overseas. The narrator is simply looking for someone who he can relate to as well as express his feelings to. Yet, when he arrives at the desk of the gunnery sergeant he is sadly let down. We notice that once the old gunnery sergeant asks the narrator why he has visited him, our narrator looks at him helplessly and replies, “I thought, maybe, you’d been out there. And seen what we’d done” (284). The word helplessly implies that the narrator is desperate and seemingly has no one left to turn to. The piece of information that is critical to the overall theme of this story is the fact that our narrator wants to know whether

“This isn't a war. It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.” this is a quote from the artilleryman a character in H.G. Well's The War of Worlds. Aired in 1897 it was originally a radio broadcast, but was converted to book form in 1898. The artilleryman explains the great difference in power between the martians and themselves.

In H.G. Wells’ The War Of The Worlds he describes martians scarcely close to humans but yet still not at all. All organisms with animal cells share 99.9% of DNA with humans… so why can't martians? The martains have all the same organs as humans do, of corse the marians had “the greater part of the structure was the brain, sending enormous nerves to the eyes, ear, and tactile tentacals.” [1] My point being that in biology animals and humans share the same DNA besides 0.01% and obviously we (being humans and animals) share all the internal organs. So if humans and martains share the same organs why can't we be related, like how humans are to monkeys(speaking in the theory of evolution). Basically “man is descended from some lowly-organized form”

The narrarator takes his wife to a safe space till the invasion is over, and he goes toward the martians. The narrarator realises that the martians are scary and he hides in a house where he meets and artillaryman, but they get seperated, then he meets a curate, but they get trapped in a house with the martians camping outside. The martians kill the curate. The narrator realises that the aliens are dead because of disease. He meets his wife and they live happily ever after.