Zero Hour By H. G. Wells: Alien Invasions

In Larry Lankton’s text, “Beyond the Boundaries” we gradually enter an unknown world that is frightening yet filled with immense beauty for miles. Due to the copper mining industry, a gradual increase of working class men and their families start to migrate to the unknown world with unsteady emotion, yet hope for a prosperous new life. In “Beyond the Boundaries”, Lankton takes us on a journey on how the “world below” transformed the upper peninsula into a functional and accepted new part of the world.

Argument: Dubus includes references to Kenneth having an inner conflict between being the man of the house, or letting his transgender feelings show.

The two stories were alike in the fact that both authors lost their parents at a very young age. Since they lost their parents at a young age, they were both raised by their grandparents. Both stories also begin with a safe arrival to a new country. Both also said the journey to the new country was a two month long trip. And lastly, the the refugees and the pilgrims traveled to a completely different continents and had to adapt to new cultures. These are all the similarities between the two stories.

Both of these stories include in their plots, surprising events that alter the course of the plot. There are a couple of surprises in the “Interlopers.” One of these

In “The Interlopers,” Ulrich von Gradwitz and George Znaeym are descendants of wealthy families, who have been in dispute over some land for some years.In Ulrich’s grandfather’s time, his family used the court to seize the land from the neighboring Znaeym family, who the Gradwitzs believed illegally possessed the land. The Znaeyms never accepted the court’s decision, and have continued to hunt in the forest patch. Georg continues to hunt on the strip of land at the edge of Ulrich’s forest because he believes it should still belong to his family.

Do you think fear can kill? “For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own - for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to The Twilight Zone” (“Rod”). In 1959, one of the most popular television series was The Twilight Zone, wrote and produced by Rod Serling. The series includes many tales and adventures that are very thought provoking. The Twilight Zone highlights the tragedies during the 1950’s, specifically in the episode, “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street”. The Twilight Zone contains five seasons but only thirty-six of the episodes were during the 1950’s and 1960’s, and were based on fear and catastrophe. The later episodes of the 1960’s reflected the catastrophes in the 1950’s. In The Twilight Zone episode, “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street”, the events display tragedies of the 1950’s, like the Red Scare, McCarthyism, and the Space Race.

Darkness at Noon, written by British novelist Arthur Koestler in 1940, is a criticism of Stalinism and the methods used by the Communist Party in the USSR. The novel was set in 1938 during the Stalinist Great Purge and Moscow show trials. Even though the story depicts actual occurrences, it does not specifically name either Russia or the USSR, but the characters do have Russian names while other generic terms are used to depict individuals and associations. For instance, the Soviet government is alluded to as "the Party" and Nazi Germany is alluded to as "the Dictatorship." Joseph Stalin, a terrorizing dictator, is represented by "Number One." The novel is a strong and moving picture of a Communist revolutionary caught up in the terror

The fall of society to aliens is a frightening thought too many. This is exactly what happens in the book The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey. Aliens are attacking the earth in waves and are plunging it into chaos. The book follows the main character Cassie Sullivan as she is traveling to a training facility to try and find her brother in this somber world. Along her travels she meets a boy named Evan Walker. She begins to fall in love with him. Over time it is discovered he is an Other. Others are what the aliens are called. Cassie is shocked but comes to accept it. The story also follows the character Ben Parish who is at the facility called Camp Haven that Cassie is traveling too. He is trained to become part of the army there in a squad. He becomes known as Private Zombie. Cassie’s brother Sammy who is also at the facility ends up joining Zombie’s squad. He becomes known as Private Nugget. As time goes on Zombie’s squad

The science fiction authors of ¨Zero Hour” and War of the Worlds write about alien invasions on Earth as most science fictions authors would. Each story describes the way that humans would react to seeing alien. The authors of both stories portray aliens that use power and have dangerous events where the characters lives are at stake. In both ¨Zero Hour¨ and War of the Worlds the authors portray aliens with magical powers.

Death is a natural occurrence that although subconsciously we all know will happen one day, there is a continuous reluctance to think about it and even to fully accept it. It is not surprising news that when an important family member dies, it can take a toll on the family as a whole. As a mom, it is difficult to watch your child be strained to handle a parent’s responsibility. Leaving Conor’s mom feeling as if she is inadequate and failing as his mother. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness explores the idea of death, its denial, the underlying pressure of the parent-child relationship due to the unfortunate circumstances. Conor’s mom feels as if she is doing an inadequate job and failing him as a mother. By holding back true information of her illness as a way to compensate her sons’ feelings, she does more harm than good. Conor eventually learns that he cannot avoid dealing with death and loss, so instead of relying on his family to show him how to cope, he uses his dreams and the Monster as his coping mechanism where he finds the truth he has been looking for.

The most evident motifs in both novels are madness, nonacceptance and the concept of betrayal. that

Out of all of the monsters that go bump in the night, shapeshifters are among the most terrifying, not because of how “scary” they are, but because of what they represent. The true definition of a shapeshifter is one that is still widely disputed because there are several different stories of shapeshifters and other monsters or creatures that possess the abilities of a shapeshifter. Many interpretations of shapeshifters allow for the human characteristics instilled in shapeshifters, one of the main characteristics depicted is distrustfulness of others, especially the shapeshifters shown in Eric Kripke’s television show, Supernatural. Shapeshifters are representations of our innate human characteristics because they are a personification of the distrustfulness that humans have towards one another. The shapeshifters that appear on this show are able to transform into whatever human form that they choose in order to enter their victim’s homes and brutally murder their loved ones. This goes to show that even the people that are supposed to be the most trustworthy – family and friends – can sometimes not be the person that we think they are. Shapeshifters are very interesting creatures. These monsters are unlike most any other monster out there, they are able to change their form into anything they desire, and they are one of the most human-like monsters, which makes them even scarier. The human-like monsters are usually the scariest because then humans are able to see themselves

Overall Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott, has a very powerful message about how as humans we are destroying the planet we call home. He discusses how we are over population and destroying Earth by using too much energy, eating too much, and feeding too much carbon into the atmosphere. This book was very powerful, it forces the reader to open their eyes to what is really happening to our planet. In the final line in Ten billion is “I think we’re fucked,” many people believe profanity is used when the speaker has a lack of vocabulary and they can’t find a better word. Emmott chose this wording not from a lack of vocabulary but because it is blunt. Using this language was powerful and blunt which was the best way to end a book like Ten Billion.

The Martian, written by Anthony Weir in 2011, is about a botanist turned astronaut named Mark Watney. It is set in November 2035 and is the third mission of the 2030’s that NASA has sent astronauts up to Mars. The story really starts when a giant storm sweeps through Mars and Watney is hit by a pole that fell down and is knocked away from the rest of the crew. They search for him but can’t find him and are forced to launch from Mars, under the assumption that Watney is dead. A few hours later, however, he awakens and discovers that he is now alone on Mars and is forced to figure out how to survive until he can be rescued. He grows a garden for himself using human waste and learns how to correctly ration food. He creates water by dangerously converting rocket fuel and other chemicals and he figures out a way to communicate with NASA that he is still alive. NASA comes up with a way to safely rescue him by changing the direction of the returning crew. At the end of the movie, he is returned safely to Earth. It was made into a film a few years later, directed by Ridley Scott, and hit theaters in October 2015. It is said to be one of the most scientifically accurate movies of all time. Despite this, there are a few mistakes.

These sailors often told stories about the monsters in the deep threatening and terrorizing those who dared venture out into the ocean. Likewise, the idea of space travel and the darkness of space created stories of aliens abducting and terrorizing humans, this idea of an alien species terrorizing humans