WotW Word Watcher Period 1 Post 2
Mr.Shank, I sure hope this post goes through. My computer has been giving me problems all day, not allowing me to post. Hopefully it works this time. ~Erin
Chapter 6
In this chapter, the news about the aliens and the cylinder spread throughout the town and neighboring towns. This causes people from all over to gather around the cylinder, even though there are police there trying to keep the people back. Eventually the extraterrestrials attack again by putting trees, hats etc. on fire. Everyone escapes safely except two women and a little boy, who get trampled by the terrified people.
Chapter 7
The narrator of the story wakes up to find himself in the middle of no where, until he remembers what happens and slowly walks home. He sees some people on the way there, and they had not yet heard of the aliens. He finally makes it home, and tells his wife of everything, and she becomes very worried. He tries to convince her that everything is okay, but in reality it is not.
Chapter 8
The people in the areas do not seem to realize that anything out of the ordinary is going on. They continue with their daily routines as if it is a regular day. The only people that seem to notice are the military authorities in the area. At the end of the chapter the second cylinder falls from the sky.
Chapter 9
In this chapter, the military became even more abundant in the town. The narrator discusses the aliens with them, but he does not learn anything new. The military tried to destroy the second cylinder without success. At about 6 o’clock an explosion ruins the college, the church, and the narrators chimney was destroyed. Realizing that they were no longer straight the narrator, his wife and their servant left for Leatherhead right away.
Chapter 10
Once the narrator gets his wife safely to his cousins house he goes back to Maybury because he had the want of war in his blood. On his journey home he witnesses the falling of the third cylinder. Next, he sees monstrous metal tripods driving towards him very fast. He flips the dog cart while trying to turn around, but winds up breaking the horses neck. The tripods were the aliens, but they went right past him. He then staggered home from exhaustion.
Chapter 11
Through the window the narrator sees a crashed train, the burning countries and the aliens. A soldier comes to the house looking for shelter, so he lets him in. He was an artillery man, but his people were attacked and he got pinned under dead men and horses. Many hours later he tries to escape, and he sees other people being killed in the process. It seems that the aliens had destroyed everything possible. The main thing that could be seen out the window was the aliens surrounding a pit, and a green glow.
Deputation- the person or body of persons so appointed or authorized
Heathery- low growing shrubs, often including flowers
Sapper- A military engineer who lays, detects, and disarms mines
Belligerent- warlike; given to waging war
Detonation- an explosion
Fusillade- a simultaneous or continuous discharge of firearms
Reverberations- An echolike force or effect; a repercussion
All these words were chosen because they described how the war was slowly building up and helped with the description of the area.
Do you think that the aliens are real beings or more like robots with an intelligence?
Will the aliens have more cylinders land on earth?
Give some examples of other words that helped build the atmosphere of the story?