War of the Worlds, Period 1, Taran Copenhaver, Connector
I believe that this novel can be connected with Lord of the Flies. in the War of the Worlds the people are attracted to the crater were the martians have landed. There is a hidden danger in the hole though. When the martians fell out of the ship they started killing. Havoc began to break out among the people. The same occured in the Lord of Flies. The boys had believed that the island was going to be fun, there were no rules, no adults, and there was a lot of space to play. Soon power struggles broke out and people were being killed. Just the same as the little boy with the birthmark who had disappered, the shop keeper had fallen in the hole and they never knew what had happened to him. The was that hidden danger that must have been in the spectators minds but they were so excited about somenthing new that they had dismayed it, the same as the boys on the island they knew that there was danger but they were so excited about being on the island that it temporarily put that out of their minds. Obviosly there will be violence and war in the story, but will the martians provide a sense of false comfort like the island did?