WotW Word Watcher Period 1 Post 2
Mr.Shank, I sure hope this post goes through. My computer has been giving me problems all day, not allowing me to post. Hopefully it works this time. ~Erin
Chapter 6
In this chapter, the news about the aliens and the cylinder spread throughout the town and neighboring towns. This causes people from all over to gather around the cylinder, even though there are police there trying to keep the people back. Eventually the extraterrestrials attack again by putting trees, hats etc. on fire. Everyone escapes safely except two women and a little boy, who get trampled by the terrified people.
Chapter 7
The narrator of the story wakes up to find himself in the middle of no where, until he remembers what happens and slowly walks home. He sees some people on the way there, and they had not yet heard of the aliens. He finally makes it home, and tells his wife of everything, and she becomes very worried. He tries to convince her that everything is okay, but in reality it is not.
Chapter 8
The people in the areas do not seem to realize that anything out of the ordinary is going on. They continue with their daily routines as if it is a regular day. The only people that seem to notice are the military authorities in the area. At the end of the chapter the second cylinder falls from the sky.
Chapter 9
In this chapter, the military became even more abundant in the town. The narrator discusses the aliens with them, but he does not learn anything new. The military tried to destroy the second cylinder without success. At about 6 o’clock an explosion ruins the college, the church, and the narrators chimney was destroyed. Realizing that they were no longer straight the narrator, his wife and their servant left for Leatherhead right away.
Chapter 10
Once the narrator gets his wife safely to his cousins house he goes back to Maybury because he had the want of war in his blood. On his journey home he witnesses the falling of the third cylinder. Next, he sees monstrous metal tripods driving towards him very fast. He flips the dog cart while trying to turn around, but winds up breaking the horses neck. The tripods were the aliens, but they went right past him. He then staggered home from exhaustion.
Chapter 11
Through the window the narrator sees a crashed train, the burning countries and the aliens. A soldier comes to the house looking for shelter, so he lets him in. He was an artillery man, but his people were attacked and he got pinned under dead men and horses. Many hours later he tries to escape, and he sees other people being killed in the process. It seems that the aliens had destroyed everything possible. The main thing that could be seen out the window was the aliens surrounding a pit, and a green glow.
Deputation- the person or body of persons so appointed or authorized
Heathery- low growing shrubs, often including flowers
Sapper- A military engineer who lays, detects, and disarms mines
Belligerent- warlike; given to waging war
Detonation- an explosion
Fusillade- a simultaneous or continuous discharge of firearms
Reverberations- An echolike force or effect; a repercussion
All these words were chosen because they described how the war was slowly building up and helped with the description of the area.
Do you think that the aliens are real beings or more like robots with an intelligence?
Will the aliens have more cylinders land on earth?
Give some examples of other words that helped build the atmosphere of the story?
Category: Summarizer/Word Watcher | Tags: wotw period 1 word watcher 4 comments »
February 22nd, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Colin Easter
1. The aliens are real beings. The narrator had described one of the aliens that came out of the cylinder earlier in the book. If you are referring to the tripods, they are more like tanks. It seems that they are controlled by martians but are still machines.
2. Yes, there will be more cylinders. In the introduction, there were ten flames that went off on Mars. These were 24 hours apart. They were the cylinders being launched so there are going to be 10 cylinders total. This means that there are going to be more tripods each day until all 10 cylinders have landed.
3. I think that the word contagion helped build the atmosphere of the story. It was used to describe the spreading of his wife’s fears. It seems that fear is going to be spread like wildfire in the coming days of the story. The constant mention of blood (whether blood itself or blood-red) also lends to the atmosphere.
February 22nd, 2009 at 4:26 pm
1. Well the first aliens that came out of the cylinder were more like real beings. The tripods are more like robots teh narrorator even describes it as machinery.
2. There will be more cylinders that land on Earth the narrorator even says, “I have no doubt this Thing was the third of the ten cylinders they had fired at us from Mars.
3.lightning seems to be a big part of the atmosphere. It seems whenever a new cylinder come to Earth there is always lightning.
– Amber
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Sonam Sherpa
1. To disagree with Easter Bunny the author did describe the martians as organic beings, but if the martians are already advanced enough so that they can travel and sustain themselves on another planet. So if the martians are so much more advanced than us how do we know for sure that these martians aren’t automotons masquerading as organic beings. To agree with Easter Bunny though I also think that the tripods were armor plated vehicles meant for a certain purpose.
2. Yes, the martians had launched a total of ten cylinders as expressed by this quote, “Why the shots ceased after the tenth no one on Earth has attempted to explain.” This quote shows the reaction of everyone on Earth to the martians and how perplexed they were by the flashes on Mars.
2a. A certain word in particular that caught my eye was the word circumference used in this context, “This little group had in its advance dragged inward, so to speak, the circumference of the now almost complete circle of people, and a number of dim black figures followed it at discreet distances.” This quote seems insignificant, but by the author using the word “circumference” in this context it shows how big the crowd of people and how many people were extemely intested in the martians landing.
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:28 pm
1. I beleive that the aliens are real beings and they are and they use the metal beings to contol them like a tank.
2. I would belive that there would be more cylinders because that would be a pretty pathetic war with only three soldiers. We can not fight them but still it would be a pathetic war with only three soldiers.
3. three words that may be of importance are gravitational, the act or force of attraction between two bodies, desolation, being deserted, and armament, The weapons of a ship. These all seem to do with why the martians are here somehow they were attracted to our planet for some reason, They seem to want to make our planet alone and empty and they use their weapons on their ship.
-Taran Copenhaver