Amber Jones pd 1 The Time Machine post 3
okay well im going to start with chapter 5 because we all read to different spots last time
- At the start of this chapter the time traveler is examining this future world and its people. He comes up with this idea of communism.
How does communism represent how society of the Elio function?
- The time traveler finds out that the time machine has been moved and is in a frenzy. He wakes up some of the creatures and scares them but eventually calms down and reasons with them on where the machine may be.
- In the morning the time traveler believes the machine may be in the statue. He asks the creatures how to open it but he gets weird reactions. He decides to be patient
- The time traveler rescues a creature in the river. Her name is Weena, they immediately become friends.
- In the morning he sees a new kind of creature, a “morlock.”
- These new creatures live underground and can only come out at night. They are ape like creatures.
- The time traveler decides he needs to enter the morlock’s world to be able to find the time machine
- The time traveler goes down a well and gets frightened by morlocks , but all he has to do is alight a match to get them to go away. They are afraid of light.
- He gets attacked by morlocks and barely escapes.
- After his experiences with the morlocks he trys to come up with new theories about this future world.
- His new theory is that the morlocks were forced underground by ancestors of the Eloi, but the Eloi have grow weak and so the morlocks are gaining power back.
- The time traveler believes that both the Eloi and the Morlocks are what has become of man.
- The time traveler and weena try to find a safe place to sleep that night because the time traveler fears he has upset the morlocks.
Do you think after the time travelers experience that he will try to go into the morlock’s world again?
- The Time traveler and Weena go to the Palace of Green Porclin which is a actually a ruined museum.
- He gets some matches and camphor and runs out.
- He hears morlocks. He quickly breaks off a lever off of a machine and him and weena exit the museum.
words to know:
rotundity- roundness
cupola- a rounded roof
transitory- temorary
ameliorating-improving
intervention-interference
stolid- sow to react
repugnance-loathing
monomania- extreme anxiety concerning one thing
undulating- rolling
sepulcher-tomb or grave
subterraneous-under the surface of the earth
apprehension- fear
nocturnal- active at night
spectral-ghostly
inferred-reasoned
deliquesced- melted away
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April 12th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
1. Well the first question we have already answered before, so I’m not going to be very detailed. Many things in the Eloi community are characteristics of a communist civilization. For one thing, not only do the people look alike, all the people look almost identically the same. The Time Traveler has a hard time even telling genders apart. This is an extreme example of a communist society. Another common thing seen with communism is that many buildings are collapsing.
2. I think that it is pretty easy to assume that the Time Traveler is going to back down into the Morlock hole. This is going to have to happen because he needs to get his time machine back. Since he believes that they his time machine he will have to get it back from them so he can return to the present.
April 13th, 2009 at 6:42 am
Sonam Sherpa
Well, to answer your first question, I would like to say that it is obvious that communism was a big factor in the Eloi’s way of life, but due to their deteriorating intellect they most likely no longer understand the concept of communism. I will however, explain how communism affected the times that created this time. Obviously since all of the houses seem to be similar in stature we can see that there was not much that one could do to make more money or do be better off than others, which is a principle of communism. Another way that communism is shown is that everyone dresses in similar clothing, and we can see no social ladder in this world of the Eloi.
Yes, I do think that the time traveller will end up going back into the lair of the Morlocks. The reason why is because it is obvious that the time traveller has an insatiable need of knowledge, and even though he almost died down there, he would find that another reason to find out more about the Morlocks. However, I believe that if he were to go down he would now know more of what he would have to deal with, and therefore he would be much more prepered than last time if he does choose to delve into the lair of the Morlocks.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Colin Easter
1. All of the Eloi dress the same and look the same. Their quality of life isn’t good, they live in large groups similar to communal living, and aren’t smart. They also don’t exert themselves. They didn’t try to rescue Weena when she was drifting away.
2. I think that the Time Traveller will go into the Morlock’s world again if he doesn’t find the time machine in the sphinx. He will be forced to since there is no other place the time machine could be. The time machine is the only way for him to get home, so he will have a good reason to get it back. Since the Morlock’s are becoming a large part of the plot, they are going to be involved in some big event. There is most likely going to be a large fight where the Time Traveller fights them off and chases them down into their cave.
April 13th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
1. Communism represents this world because the Eloi do not have to work while the Morlocks do and everybody is equal. Communism also makes living conditions harsh and there living conditions are not that great.
2. I don’t think that he will go back down in the vent again. He has seen how many of them there are and with just matches he can not fend them off. I think that he will wait until the night to attack them.
-Taran