Mr_Shank

In this section the narrator finally reaches London and finds that all the martians are dead.  We then see him walking through his home looking at all the destruction.  He then finds out that his wife is not dead as he thought she was.  They both confess that they thought the other one was dead.In the last chapter the narrator talks about what is happening while he is writing the last chapters of his story.  He talks about all the things that are occuring all over England. 

My questions for you are: What was H. G. Wells trying to do when he wrote this novel, and do you think that in the end the narrator went insane like everyother person he was with throughout the story.

Kody Bell

Ok, so the narrator has seen the capabilities of the Martians and has realized that some of the survivors that he has come across are definately not as sane as he is. What he has seen scares him; he feels alone in the world. My questions are:

1. Why do you think the narrator hasn’t gone insane like the curate or the artillaryman?

2. Why does H.G. Wells focus so much on the “red weed”? Is there a connection between the plant and the Martians?

3. The narrator has seen the extent of damage the Martians can do and finally knows just what they use their captured humans for. At this point in time, do you think there is any hope for any humans to survive?

Use evidence from the text to support your answers.

After reading The Lord of the Flies our class discussed many “lenses” that Golding had written the book in. Such as the psychoanalytic theory (Freud), the religion, and history/politics. As our group reads War of the WorldsI wonder why the author is writing this book. I wonder what is purpose is. Is it mere entertainment? or is their a meaning behind it all? We know now that they war between the martians has begun, and it is a hard fight. My question to you is:

What is the authors purpose in writing this book? What lens is H. G. Wells writing from?

The first chapter of the book starts out from the point of view of a man who has already experienced whatever the plot of the story is. He drops a lot of hints early on about the impending attack on mankind from Mars. This tells us that the narrator must have survived the events that are going to take place throughout the novel. Knowing this, we can ask the questions of why are the Martians attacking people, how how did they get to Earth, and what are they’re intentions? What do you think the martians want?

The main issue i would like to address is society’s reaction to the arrival of the Martians. It seems that the people of Woking and the other nearby towns were very enthralled by the news of landings, but in just a few short days most of the people seem uninterested or even uninformed about the Martians and the deaths of all those people. What is the reason for society’s apparent lack of interest in the recent happenings? More importantly, however, the military officers that the narrator talks to all have the same opinion about the Martians; that killing them now would be the best thing for humanity. This seems like a logical idea on their end since the Martians seem to be very hostile, but is it really a good idea to eliminate the first extraterrestrial species ever encountered by mankind?

-Shaun Ditzler