Mr_Shank

In this section of the novel we see that the story is told in first person.  The narrator is a main character but his name is not revealed in the first nine chapters.  The narrator believes that he first saw the capsule that lands on Earth being shot off about three days before the landing.  He then describes himself walking with his wife the next night, and the night that it arrived he was in his study working with his windows wide open.  If he would have looked up from his desk while working he would have saw what seemed to be a meteorite flying through the sky.  But he didn’t look up so he didn’t see it.  When the capsule opens the narrator was the one of the people who was standing there watching. He was also one of the first to recognize that there was a threat.  One of his best friends was the first to be killed by the martians Heat-Ray. After this happens he knows he must take his wife and get away from the city. So he goes to the innkeeper and rents the innkeeper’s dog cart and horse. He then takes his wife and their maid and goes to Leatherhead, a town where his wife’s family lives. The way the narrator acts throughout this section, he seems to be in an upper class and feels he is better than everyone else. The narrator seems to be enthused by science and astronomy. What do you think he will do when the capsule finally opens? and why do you think he will act this way?

The passage that I have chosen is on pg.25 paragraph 1st paragraph. “She put her hands where the child’s shoulders might be, under all that blanket, and pushed it gently back into the seat, trying to make it belong there. She looked at it for a long time. Then she closed the door and walked away.” The reason i choose this passage was becasue I found it important and relevant to the story. I think that it helps the reader to get a better understanding of the bond between the Indian child and one of the main characters, Taylor. While the woman was putting the child down onto the seat Taylor was just watching everything happen silently and appearing as though she accepted and understood that the child was going to become a part of her destiny.

“Why do you think that Taylor accepted the Indian child?” “Do you think that she felt an attachment towards the child and decided to just accept what was happening and not bother returing it to the woman or come back the next day to return the child?”

-Kianat Zamir