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The War of the Worlds by HG Wells Essay

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The War of the Worlds by H G Wells

This discussion will aim to explain what techniques H.G Well’s uses, which makes ‘War Of The Worlds’ a gripping and successful story.

In This novel is basically about one mans account of Martians invasion and war on earth; throughout this play reality and fantasy bonded together to form the novel ‘The War Of The Worlds’. This novel was written at the turn of the century in 1998. There was a couple of events that inspired wells to write this story on of which was that in
1894 mars was positioned particularly closely to earth, leading to great deal of observation and discussion. Another event would be also in 1894 when an observer M. Javelle of Nice, claimed to have seen a strange light on …show more content…

The reason for this is that at one point the Martians are attacking somewhere else in another area and the original narrator could not reach there so the brother narrates instead. H.G Wells chose not to continue with his own narrative techniques as I think he wanted the readers to hear about other peoples views and opinions and their account of what was going on so that it was not just him narrating throughout the whole of the story otherwise this might of made it quite boring.

Quite early on in the novel we find out that the narrator is from middle class background because of the company he keeps,

“I might not have heard of the eruption at all had I not met Ogilvy, the astronomer at otter Shaw.”

A large amount of the novel consists of the mixing of science fact and science fiction, which in the end bonds together and makes the reader feel as if it all together is a fact. This story is filled with suspense this is one of the things that makes the readers read on.

“The planet mars, I scarcely need to remind the reader revolves about the sun at a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles”

This is giving the reader fact to try to get them interested and to make their mind believe that there is a possibility of life on mars.

“And the light and heat that it receives from the sun is barely half of that received by this world” the narrator only gives reasons why there has to

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