Amber Jones Pd.1 The Time Machine Final Post
Chapter 10- The Palace of Green Porcelain
- The Time Traveler and Weena go to a ruined museum
- He is very interested in some of the exhibits others he is not
- The time traveler hears the sound of morlocks in the darkness
- He breaks a lever off on of the exhibits and runs out of the museum with wenna.
- He realizes that they still do not have a shelter, but he doesn’t think much of it because he has weapons against the morlocks.
Chapter 11-In the Darkness of the Forest
- His plan was to go to the white sphinx statue, but then he decided to go through the woods then he was going to go as far as possible and then build a large fire.
- They were both growing ver tired as the day dragged on
- As they got closer to the woods they could hear morlocks behind them.
- They were now surrounded by the morclocks so the time traveler quickly started a fire and and went to sleep feeling safe
- He wakes up to feel morlocks grabbing him
- He grabs his lever and swings wildly killing a few morlocks
- The small fire he had made is now a huge forest fire and he cannot find weena
- He runs after the morlocks hoping they will lead him to safety
- He heads toward the hiding place of the time machine
Chapter 12- The Trap of the White Sphinx
- When he reaches the white sphinx statue he realizes that the pedestal was open
- He walks into the pedestal knowing that the door would close behind him and morlocks would attack him, but he thought he would strike a match until he got in there he had nothing to strike it against
- He gets on the saddle of the time machine and screws in the lever he pushes the lever and goes off into the future
Chapter 13- The further Vision
- Although the time traveler is traveling hundreds of years per second he sees day and night and notices a change in the sun it is now larger and redder
- He brings the time machine to a stop. He is on a beach there is vegetation on everything
- He sees a crap and feels another one behind him
- He quickly goes a month into the future. He finds the beach has more crabs. Then, he goes on even farther.
- He stops every hundred years or so looking at how everything is changing. He finally stops 30 million years into the future.
- There is small snow flakes in the air and eclipse is starting to cover the sun there is barely any animal life.
- He climbs back onto the time machine and goes back in time. He stops the machine when he is in the laboratory, his guests are in the dinning room.
- The time machine was moved to a different end of the laboratory which was the distance from the his little lawn to the pedestal of the white sphinx
- He tells the men the story.
Chapter 14- After the Time Traveler’s Story
- The narrator is now one of the men in the room like it was in the beginning of the story
- The guests do not believe the time traveler’s story.
- The time traveler prepared for another journey
- He said he would be gone half an hour, but that was three years ago the time traveler has not been seen since
Questions:
1. Why do you think the author changes the narrator in the story
2. What do you think happened to the time traveler?
3.Do you think he will ever come back?
4. What did you think of the ending?
Word to know:
credible- believable- they do not believe the time traveler’s story
hoax- a joke/ tick- this is what they think the time traveler is doing to them
eluded-escaped- the time traveler escaped the morlocks
begrimed- dirty-the time traveler was very dirty when he came back because of all that he has been through
portal- doorway- the time traveler went in to doorway of the white sphinx statue
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April 18th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
1. First of all the narrorator never changed it was always one of the men in the room, he was just telling us the story exactly like he heard it but it is strange that he would not just tell it from the time traveler’s point of view. The reason he had someone else do it was for the ending. It creates mystery that the time traveler disapeared and never came back and if the time traveler were telling you it you would know and you would not get to think. This way you can create your own ending.
2. I think that the time traveler went to see Weena and is either living with her or he was killed.
3.I do not really think he will come back because he would have done so already if he were moving there.
4. I liked the ending it was fun and was left wide open for possibillities.
-Taran
April 19th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Colin Easter
1. As Taran said, the narrator didn’t change. The man was listening to the Time Traveller tell the story the whole time, but the Time Traveller wasn’t the narrator. It might seem that there is a shift when the Time Traveller’s story ends, but it is because the narrator starts talking more. The Time Traveller’s words are in quotations throughout the story, indicating that he is speaking.
2. I think that the Time Traveller went back to the future and maybe into the past to take pictures for proof. The narrator saw the Time Traveller take a camera and disappear with the Time Machine.
3. I don’t think that he will come back. Since he can travel through time, he would have been back at that time if he wanted to. Since he isn’t, that means he either lost the Time Machine or died.
4. I liked the ending. It lets you draw your own conclusions and think of the other possibilities of time travel.
April 19th, 2009 at 11:11 am
1. Not much more can be said about the first question since that it has been cleared up that the narrator did not change. The reason I believe you thought this was because of the constant quotes being said by the Time Traveler. They pretty much made up the entire book. The reason I believe for another character, other than the Time Traveler, is so the story is unbiased. By having it come from an outer force it lets you decide more if the Time Travelers’ stories are true or if he made them all up.
2. It is really hard to say where the Time Traveler went. Obviously he was going somewhere to get proof that he actually went time traveling. We know this because he took a camera. The confusing part is that he has been gone for three years. I am thinking that there was some sort of accident that either caused the time machine to break, or he was killed.
3. I think it would be cool if he would come back to tell of his travels, but I don’t see it likely since he has not after three years.
4. I think an ending with more conclusion would be nice, but the way it was done is definitely perfect. I enjoy ending with a question because it really makes you wonder about the possibilities.
~Erin Campbell =]
April 19th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Colin Easter
I also noticed a humorous spelling error in your post. You misspelled “crab” as “crap” in one of your sentences. “He sees a crap and feels another one behind him.”
April 19th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Sonam Sherpa
1. Well, to repeat what everyone already said, the narrator was constant throughout the whole portion of the book. The reason why you may have made this mistake is because the change from the time traveller’s narration to the narrator’s narration was extremely sudden and abrupt.
2. To agree with Giddy, it would be extremely impossible to guess where he had travelled to becuase he had an incomprehensible amount of different time periods to travel to. If I had to make a guess I would assume that he travelled back to a time when Weena was still alive and then chose to take Weena with him to the future of his home’s time, but just far enough so humans were still intelligent. The reason why I think this is because he learned to love Weena and he always wanted to stay with her so it seems logical. And I think that he would travel to a more technological time is because of his thirst for knowledge and the hope that he might be able to fix the future that he came to know.
3. I think that it is kind of questionable but he did make a promise to the narrator, and the time traveller seems like the kind of person who would keep his word. The reason why is because if he wanted people to believe him then he would have to come back eventually. (I do realize that the time traveller doesn’t care if people don’t believe his tale but I think that he has come to respect the narrator more than his other guests and won’t let him down).
4. I think that the ending was perfect. The reason why is because the future is full of mystery and confusion and by ending the story with a cliffhanger H.G. Wells has created the same feeling that the time traveller must have felt when he time travelled. What I mean by this is that when he time travelled he wasn’t sure what was going to come, and with this ending the reader would feel the same way.
April 19th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
oh darn stupid typo!