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In the final section of the story the narrorator is locked in a house with the curate for fifteen days or so, and when the curate dies and the narrorator emerges to a world covered in this red weed.
Do you believe that this section of the story is a symbol for something or represents a greater idea? What message is the author trying to tell us? Remember this is your opinion.
-Taran
Colin Easter
Most of the civilians are running away from the martians now that they are attacking. The soldiers who tried to fight them were wiped out. This leaves a few questions that can be asked:
1.Do you think that the civilians will always run and hide from the martians? More importantly, will the narrator keep running for safety?
2. What is the “red glare” the author keeps mentioning? Is it the fire from the heat ray or does it mean something else?
3. Do you think that the martians can tell the difference between soldiers and civilians? If they could, do you think that they would still kill the civilians?
Try to support your answers with evidence from the text.
First off I think that since I am the discussion director for this first week I should say that it would be greatly appreciated if everyone in our group could read the first five chapters of the book to answer some of my questions. My questions are as follows:
1. First off, what do all of you think of the book so far, do you think that this form of introduction into the book written by H.G. Wells was an effective way to start the book?
2. Second, I would like to know if you think that the foreshadowing used by H.G. Wells was too direct, and if it made it too easy to guess what would happen later on in the story? (What I mean by this is if you thought that by showing instances that denied the existence of martians was a way of foreshadowing that made the outcome too predictable, and therefore killed off any suspense that was meant to be built up.)
3. Third, I would like to know what were your first thoughts when the capsule had landed and started to move? Did you just happen to guess it was a martian? Or did you think something different, don’t by shy to tell us what you thought.
4. And finally I would like to hear some feedback on what were your thoughts when you learned more about the martians. Did you believe that they were capable of killing masses of people in one swoop? Or do you think it was just an overreaction made by the martians? You tell me, I would like to hear what you think about these extraterrestrials
I think that these four questions should keep you busy long enough.