Amber Jones period 1 war of the worlds chapters 1-5
War of the Worlds
chapter 1: The Eve of the War
- The first chapter as the title of it explains is about a war coming.
- This first chapter tells us the main history of Mars.
- We also meet the main character of the book who is obviously of high class and well educated but, he is not named.
Chapter 2: The Falling Stars
- Chapter 2 has forshadowing when the martians land and Ogilvy is studying the cylinder there is no wind or birds much like the calm before the storm.
- In this chapter the landing of the cylinder happens.
- People start to gather at the crash site and newspapers are starting to write about it.
Chapter 3: On Horsell Common
- This chapter shoes how behind Earth people are because they all have short attention spans. This is something humans have never seen before and when they come to see it and its not doing anything they leave quickly
- There is a bit of irony that takes place when the people are trying to dig out the cylinder, which actuall leads to their demise.
Chapter 4: The Cylinder Opens
- 100’s of people gather at the crash site and everyone was getting rowdy and the shop keeper gets pushed in.
- The lid to the cylinder continues to unscrew as he tries to climb out.
- The clyinder opens and everyone runs and hides as they see a martian coming out.
- As people grow with fear they see the shop keeper franticly trying to get out of the pit, but the martian pulls him down into the pit.
- We do not actually know what happens to the shopkeeper but we assume.
Chapter 5: The Heat-Ray
- Out of the pit rises a pole with a spinning disk at the top.
- More people start to show up including the deputation.
- The heat-ray goes off killing some of the onlookers
- The narrorator runs fearfully away to safty.
Words to watch:
Tranquility- (the last word of the first chapter) -quality or state of being tranquil; calmness; peacefulness; quiet; serenity.
- this word is improtant to the story because it is the exact opposite of what is happening in the story.
Deputation -(chapter 5, 9th paragraph 1st sentence) the small group of men that approach the Martians with a white flag
- This word is important because these are the people that come to stop the martians but they arive as soon as the heat ray fires.
Scrutinize- (chapter 1 paragraph 1)-to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- I thought this was an interesting word to be used in the opening
Seriocomic- Partly comic partly serious
- I didn’t think there was anything comic about this book
Smoke- The visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance
- This word is used a lot in the story so far
AMBER =)
Some question???????
1. What do you think the martians are on earth to do? Or in other words what is their mission?
2. What do you think the narrorator is going to do next based on what we know so far?
3. Are there any other words you came across while reading that you believe are important or are used a lot.
4. is there is anything you believe is important that i missed while summarizing?
Category: Per 1 WotW Sum/WW, Summarizer/Word Watcher, per 1 wotw s/ww 5 comments »
February 12th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
okay. ummm it wont let me edit but i have questions for u to answer so u can actually respond.
1. What do you think the martians are on earth to do? Or in other words what is their mission?
2. What do you think the narrorator is going to do next based on what we know so far?
3. Are there any other words you came across while reading that you believe are important or are used a lot.
4. if there is anything i missed while summarizing please tell me.
February 12th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Sonam
1. Well by going on the title I would make a nerdy guess that they are after galactic conquest, or ruling all areas of space. Or as I believe they had come to our planet with peaceful intention, but they had never seen anything like us and didn’t understand our language, so that it eventually ended with a “War of the Worlds”.
2. Well we know that the narrator has very good connections within the higher workings of society so it is obvious that he will remain in the limelight of the plotline of this story. I also believe that he had lived, because if he was dead then how would he be telling the story to us?
3. Well to make it obvious I had found it very odd that the extraterrestrials were referred to as “martians”. The reason why is because it would be thought that more people would use the word “alien”. This is just something that I found odd, and it also referred to the “aliens” as if they were from mars, but they didn’t have to be. Maybe that’s why they called them “MARtians”.
4. No, I don’t. I believe that you did a very good job on being the summarizer/word watcher. The only thing that I noticed was that you maybe could have used more than one short sentence to describe an event that happened during one of the chapters.
February 13th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
1.I belive that the martians are there to kill us and move in to our planet.
2. I think that he will follow the martians carefully to study them.
3. I think that the word Destruction which means “to put out of existence”. I belive that there will be a lot of this and the word itself.
4. I can’t really find anything that you missed, good job
February 15th, 2009 at 8:41 am
Colin Easter
1. The martians came to take over the earth because Mars is becoming uninhabitable. This was discussed in the introduction of the book. It said that the martians had to bring war to earth to survive. They are going to take it by way of killing everything on it.
2. I think that the narrator is going to go back to town, alert everyone there, and pack his things. He will then either try to get as far away as the martians as possible or meet up with some of his friends to discuss the aliens.
3. I think that the word stumbling is going to be used frequently in the novel. It seems that he is going to be constantly running away from the martians, most likely through rough terrain.
4. In chapter three you missed the fact that newspapers started carrying news about the the landing. This is important as everyone now knows that something happened.
February 15th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Erin Campbell
1. The aliens are coming to earth because for some reason their planet is no longer able to be lived on so therefore they need to find a new place to live. That is what brings them to earth.
2. I think the narrator is either going find a way to make peace with them or (and more likely)think of a way to either destroy them or get them to leave the planet. The narrator seems capable of this because he seems very intelligent and interested in science.
3. Horror seems to be a very commonly used word that I am sure will show up more through out the book.
4. You are doing awesome Amber!