Wotw Final Post, Sonam Sherpa, Character Watcher
Well since this is our last post for “War of the Worlds” I will attempt to make it the best one that I’ve written so far. Well if everyone in this group had read the book then we should all know what happens at the end and how the main character takes it, but out of this we learn some interesting things about the narrator.
First off, the most noticeable thing that we learn about the main character is the fact that even when surrounded by certain people that have gone partially insane, he keeps his head. This shows some of the development that the main character has gone through since the beginning of the story. Because at the beginning of the story the main character seemed to be the kind of person who would just deny that something was happening. An example of this would be like when he found out about the martians at first, he didn’t go and try to do something about the problem at hand instead he went home and ate a hearty meal with his wife. But during this last section of the book we now notice that he has progressed enough to not be afraid if it is unnecessary and he’s now able to deal with the situation at hand like a normal person.
We also see that the main character now doesn’t just think about being the hero, he actually mans up and attempts to be the hero. We see this when he was talking to the artilleryman. During that conversation that he had with the artilleryman he was actually considering doing exactly what the artilleryman was saying and ending up being a huge hero, that is until he found out that the artilleryman was extremely insane and didn’t know what he was talking about. Also after the main character had left the artilleryman he didn’t just go somewhere and lie in a fetal position ready to die, no, he went straight to the source of the problem and to his utter amazement found that the problem had been eradicated by the very thing that has been eradicating mankind since the beginning of time.
Now to end off this amazing blog I have a couple of questions that I was wondering about while I was reading and I would like to get some of your input. First off, I really am wondering whether the main character will maintain his new found level of maturity, or do you just think that he only matured this much because he was in a constant state of fear and shock? I was also wondering whether or not you think the martian invasion is really over, or were these martians only the first wave of the invasion? Finally I was wondering whether you thought that the martians demise was satisfactory for the amount of pain and suffering that they caused on earth, or do you think that they should have had a harsher death? Please answer these questions to my last blog on “War of the Worlds”. Thank you in advance.
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March 7th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
I think he will keep his maturity because he had grown and learned a lot about himslef through this invasion. I believe he will use this maturity to help scientists to figure out all about these martians.
I think the invasion is really over only because the martains have learned they cannot survive on the planet Earth. They have taken over venus so i think they will just try other planets.
No I thought they would have a much harsher death for all the lives they took on Earth.
March 7th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
I think that the narrator will keep his maturity. Everything he has been through seems to me to be a life altering experience. It probably permanently changed his view on life, including spending time with his wife and living life to its fullest.
I agree with Amber in saying that the invasion is really over for good. Hopefully they have realized that Earth is not inhabitable for their kind of species. The only way this would change is if they found a way to slowly expose themselves to germs and become immune to them, but I think that would be far fetched.
I do believe that the aliens may have deserved a harsher death, but if that death would have involved things the humans did to them then no. I personally do not enjoy and part of war, and I would not want the humans to stoop to their level by finding a way to demolish them (even though technically they tried to). I was much happier to see there ending the way they did even though violence would have been more interesting to read about.
Your welcome Sonam!
~Erin C. =]
March 8th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
so why did the author not give the martians a harsher death?
March 8th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Well Amber it might have been because he had written a great deal of violence in the rest of the book, and maybe he thought that he could not have made the martians die a harsher death than them all dieing simultaneously without a clue about how it happened. Personally that seems like a death that would even seem harsh to William Sherman. This death was very harsh on the martians because they had not probably known about the diseases on Earth, and therefore they had been their own demise due to the fact that they had overlooked the smallest detail. Did that answer your question Amber.
March 8th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
1. I think that the narrorator will keep his maturity because this whole experience is not one that he will probably forget for his entire life. Every time he thinks of it he will feel the strong emotions that he felt then and will constantly be a strong person.
2. I think that the martian invasion is not really over. There are probably going to be more that come, but the humans will be able to fend them off before they cause too much damamge. It even said at the end of the story that it was not over just quite yet.
3. I think it was a fair death for them. Just think of everybody that has to deal with diease, it robs them of their life until they are healed. If the martians were to be blown up it would have been a short and painless death, so them dying by diease seems to be a good punishment .
Taran
March 8th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Colin Easter
1. I think that the narrator will maintain his level of maturity. It would be hard for him to lose it, especially since he has flashbacks to the martian invasion. The invasion will be something that he won’t forget, so he will remember to stay mature.
2. I think that this is the last invasion of the martians on Earth as long as the people keep their defenses strong. The martians were watching the people on Earth, so if they see strong defenses they won’t come back. Half of the reason they were as successful as they were was because of the surprising nature of the invasion. The narrator also says that there is reason to think that they have made a successful landing on Venus. They would most likely focus on Venus if that is the case.
3. Perhaps dying from disease is one of the harsher deaths the author could have imagined. The martians would see their comrades dying in their machines and not know what is causing them to die. It must have been frighting to be the last martian in the howling tripod. All of the martians around him were dead and laid out in the pit.