By Nicole Bowman

1. H.G. Wells! By Nicole Bowman

2. In The Life of H.G. Wells H.G. Wells was born September 21st, 1866. He came from a rather poor family, who did not have the greatest marriage. Wells went to a basic school for his education and then became a draper. This work did not delight him, so in 1883 he won a scholarship to the Imperial College of Science and Technology. Here he started the Science Schools Journal, but his work got boring and tiresome after a while so he left and became a science master at a small private college. During his time here, he wrote the Educational Times and published The Rediscovery of the Unique. Here is where he became popular and started writing in a science fiction genre. H.G. Wells wrote five novels. His first was The Time Machine, which served as a critique of capitalism and was written in 1895. He followed with The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of The Worlds (1898), and First Man in the Moon (1900). All these books are ones that made Wells popular. In 1938 The War of the Worlds became adapted for radio play. It was then read over the radio as a real emergency broadcast sending people into a panic. People actually thought aliens were attacking. Wells career stated to fall after 1920. The critics were being very hard on him by saying that he changed into a full-fledged propagandist. He tried to write a non-fiction work called The Outline of History but this did not really get him anywhere. Wells died August 13, 1946. He would be for ever known as a titian in the science fiction genre. (Biography of H.G. Wells 1866-1946)

3. Novels Written! • - The First Men in the Moon- "One of H.G. Wells classic novels, The First Men in the Moon was his story of mankind's initial journey to and contact with life on the moon. Misters Bedford and Cavor travel via a spherical spaceship. Mr. Cavor designs the ship after discovering an elementary material that shields the Earth's gravity therefore providing the propulsion needed to launch the craft. The journey is difficult as is the lunar landing. The men are amazed at their enhanced abilities on the moon due to its weakened gravitational pull.The two men are discovered and captured by Selenites (later called moonies), large nearly human-sized ants that walk upright on their hind legs. They are taken below the surface into the subterranean world of the ant people. The men rebel against their captors and flee to the moon's surface but struggle to relocate the hidden sphere. After splitting up, Cavor is captured and leaves a note telling of his bondage. Bedford returns to Earth with several mementos of his adventure, two crowbars and a thick chain, all of which are made out of gold. Bedford is fortunate to land in the sea off the English coast and finds helpful locals to assist in his rehabilitation. Unfortunately the sphere is launched by a curious young boy and lost forever in space.Cavoris able to send messages from the moon to Earth unaware that Bedford had returned. He describes aspects of the moonies society, geography and biology. He is able to communicate with the smartest moonie, the Grand Lunar, but reveals man's darker warlike tendencies sealing his fate. Bedford's dreams of returning to harvest the gold rich planet were dashed as well." Where This is From

4. Continued.. • - The Invisible Man- "The plot is simple and straightforward. Griffin, having rendered himself invisible with an earlier experiment, enters a town and sets up a lab in an inn where he works night and day to come up with a formula that will reverse his invisibility. When he slips up and accidentally reveals himself, he engages in immature and violent actions until he is forced to run and find a new hiding place. As more people become aware of his existence, his situation becomes more perilous. Finally, he stumbles into the home of a former college professor whom he assumes will be interested in his experiments and willing to help him. The doctor, Mr. Kemp, however, reads newspaper accounts of Griffin’s insane actions against people in the town and betrays his trust. Griffin is hunted down, caught and killed, whereupon he becomes visible again. The little, inconspicuous victim of some of Griffin’s behavior is left with the stolen money and the documents that explain Griffin’s experiments. The story closes with the suggestion that Marvel himself might try the experiments if only he could figure them out."Where This is From

5. Continued… • - The Shape of Things to Come- "When Dr Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind a powerful legacy - an unpublished 'dream book'. Inspired by visions he has experienced for many years, it appears to be a book written far into the future: a history of humanity from the date of his death up to 2105. The Shape of Things to Come provides this 'history of the future', an account that was in some ways remarkably prescient - predicting climatic disaster and sweeping cultural changes, including a Second World War, the rise of chemical warfare, and political instabilities in the Middle East."Where This is From- The Sleeper Awakes- "Graham, an 1890s radical pamphleteer who is eagerly awaiting the twentieth century and all the advances it will bring, is stricken with insomnia. Finally resorting to medication, he instantly falls into a deep sleep that lasts two hundred years. Upon waking in the twenty-second century to a strange and nightmarish place, he slowly discovers he is master of the world, revered by an adoring populace who consider him their leader. Terrified, he escapes from his chamber seeking solace—only to realize that not everyone adores him, some even wish to harm him."Where This is From

6. Continued.. • - The Time Machine-A group of men, including the narrator, is listening to the Time Traveller discuss his theory that time is the fourth dimension. The Time Traveller produces a miniature time machine and makes it disappear into thin air. The next week, the guests return, to find their host stumble in, looking disheveled and tired. They sit down after dinner, and the Time Traveller begins his story.The Time Traveller had finally finished work on his time machine, and it rocketed him into the future. When the machine stops, in the year 802,701 AD, he finds himself in a paradisiacal world of small humanoid creatures called Eloi. They are frail and peaceful, and give him fruit to eat. He explores the area, but when he returns he finds that his time machine is gone. He decides that it has been put inside the pedestal of a nearby statue. He tries to pry it open but cannot. In the night, he begins to catch glimpses of strange white ape-like creatures the Eloi call Morlocks. He decides that the Morlocks live below ground, down the wells that dot the landscape. Meanwhile, he saves one of the Eloi from drowning, and she befriends him. Her name is Weena. The Time Traveller finally works up enough courage to go down into the world of Morlocks to try to retrieve his time machine. He finds that matches are a good defense against the Morlocks, but ultimately they chase him out of their realm. Frightened by the Morlocks, he takes Weena to try to find a place where they will be safe from the Morlocks' nocturnal hunting. He goes to what he calls the Palace of Green Porcelain, which turns out to be a museum. There, he finds more matches, some camphor, and a lever he can use as a weapon. That night, retreating from the Morlocks through a giant wood, he accidentally starts a fire. Many Morlocks die in the fire and the battle that ensues, and Weena is killed. The exhausted Time Traveller returns to the pedestal to find that it has already been pried open. He strides in confidently, and just when the Morlocks think that they have trapped him, he springs onto the machine and whizzes into the future. The Time Traveller makes several more stops. In a distant time he stops on a beach where he is attacked by giant crabs. The bloated red sun sits motionless in the sky. He then travels thirty million years into the future. The air is very thin, and the only sign of life is a black blob with tentacles. He sees a planet eclipse the sun. He then returns, exhausted, to the present time. The next day, he leaves again, but never returns.

7. Continued… • - The Island of Dr. Moreau- One of the books by H.G. Wells was The Island of Dr. Moreau. This book starts out with a man named Pendrick who has shipwrecked and is practically starving to death when he is scooped up by a passing ship. A man named Montgomery is the one who picks him up. Once Montgomery nurses Pendrick back to health, he tells Pendrick that he is headed to a little island where he works and all the animals that he hears are coming with him. Pendrick becomes a little freaked out when he meets Montgomery’s man servant who is very odd looking, which makes him a little weary. When they finally make it to this island, both Dr. Moreau and the captain of the ship refuse to take Pendrick. The odd creatures of the island feel bad though and they come back to him. By this point, Pendrick is becoming increasingly curious about what Dr. Moreau studies. Dr. Moreau puts him in a room and locks him in, which just causes Pendrick more confusion and wonder. Pendrick suddenly realizes he has heard of Dr. Moreau. He was exposed for his gruesome experiments. The next day, Pendrick becomes increasingly curious about what Moreau is doing where he hears the cries of a puma, so he ventures out of his room into the world of the island. He discovers a few species of animal man things and heads back to confront Montgomery about this. He refuses to tell Pendrick anything.  The next morning Pendrick awakens to find the door unlocked. He goes out it and finds a thing on the operating table the Moreau is working on. This freaks Pendrick out and he flees to the jungle fearing he is next for operation. He runs into several weird animals, but when Moreau and Montgomery catch up with him they convince he that they are only operating on animals trying to turn them into humans. This calms Pendrick.  Then one day when Montgomery and Pendrick are walking around the island they find a half eaten rabbit and this is a bad sign and a break of the law for these animals. They figure out who it is and corner the leopard man. Pendrick feels bad for him, so he shoots him. This way he will not have to go back to Moreau’s operating table.  One day as Moreau was operating on a puma it got out of the lab. Moreau chased it, but the two end up killing each other. Pendrick then comes to find that Montgomery is very drunk and is sharing his alcohol with the Beast Folk. Then Montgomery gets into a fight with the Beast Folk and dies right in front of Pendrick. Then Pendrick decides to live in peace with the animal beasts, but he is just doing this until he can build a raft and get off the island. He was in luck when a boat with 2 dead bodies rolled by, so he got supplies and left that morning. He was later picked up by a passing ship, but they did not believe his story, so when he returns home he decides he will say he does not remember anything. Pendrick still felt weird around regular people after his experiences on the island. This caused him to go into solitude where he studied chemistry and astronomy to find peace within him. 

8. Continued… • - The War of the Worlds- In the beginning of this story, everyone in the world is continuing their lives normally. Little do they know that Mars is in its final stage of evolving and the drop in temperature there has driven the Martians to launch themselves towards Earth. An astronomer named Ogilvy sees this and becomes very excited. The rest of Britain follows his excitement and everyone begins following the flames in the sky that went off for ten nights. After this ended, everyone went back to their lives as if nothing happened. The canisters finally land Ogilvy sets out to find the landing site, and he convinces Henderson that there is a man inside it. This gets everyone excited and draws people to the crash site. A shop assistant gets pushed into the pit by the crowd and the Martians emerge. They have big heads, eyes and have many tentacles. The site of them sends the crowd running. The shop assistant disappears into the pit. The crowd moves closer again until a machine rises out of the pit and sends 40 people up in flames with its laser. Then the machine went back down into the pit. People then realize that the area surrounding the pit is the only place in danger at the moment. The machine would rise once in a while killing anyone who ventured to close. The narrator sees a metal tripod controlled by a Martian and sees everyone preparing to leave their houses. The narrator and many others engage in hidden gunfire with the Martian tripod and bring it down. The narrator then finds a boat and continues downstream. When he banks, he takes a nap and when he wakes up he cannot believe the destruction. He figures out that the Martians have changed their weapon of choice to black smoke, which is deadly. The news of the black smoke spreads and the people fled in fear of it. The narrator’s brother, wife and younger sister are traveling together when they come upon a mass of people trying to flee. They are all trying to push forward. They are being very cruel to each other. All three of them push their way through the crowds and secure their spot on a paddle streamer to Olstend. Then they depart as they watch a fight between the Martians and a warship. The fifth canister lands close to where the narrator is trapping him and the curate in a house near the edge of the pit. The curate was beginning to lose his mind and was spouting off things, so the narrator hit him over the head with a meat chopper. This got the Martians attention, so they came and took the curate. The narrator hid in the coal cellar for days. On the fifteenth day, the narrator realizes that it is safe to come out of the house now. He decides he is going to head back to London. He plans to give himself up to the Martians, but when he gets to the top of the last Martian pit he discovers that they are dead.They were not immune to the Earths common bacteria, therefore this killed them. Then the narrator wonders for three days till a family takes him in and nurses him back to health. Then he returns home to Leatherhead where he finds his wife and life begins to return to normal with the occasional flashback to the Martian invasion.

9. Review of The Island of Dr. Moreau!!!!!!! • This book starts out with conflict and excitement right away. It doesn't take long for the reader to get engaged, as the main character Pendrick is shipwrecked out at sea barley surviving. The twists and turns of this story will really keep you going. It is not boring at all. I personally thought The Island of Dr. Moreau was a very interesting read. The book is not dead in any way. It keeps the reader very engaged with the constant wonder of what the animal noises are or what strange creature your going to run into next. The very thought of the strange creepy things Dr. Moreau could be doing to the poor animals is enough to make you quiver. If you looking for a unique thrilling story full of mystery then I think we might have found the book for you. The very thing that kept my interest in this book is wanting to know weather or not Pendrick will make it off the island alive, but I won't give that away. Come out and read this book everyone, come on who doesn't love a classic!

10. Review of The War of the Worlds! The War of the Worlds is broken up into two parts I found it to be a very well exicuted science-fiction story. It starts out with the humans of Earth thinking that the Martians will never come after them. Then they see canisters being shot into the air over a period of ten ten days, but once again they think nothing of it. Then one day when they land there heat ray start killing humans and everyone is in panic mode. Then there is the shocking and quick end. I thought this story was another one that gets right into the action and is not boring at all. This story is action packing and always keeping you on the edge of your seat. There is never a dull moment with this book, so get out and read it!

11. Literary Devices! • Characterization- There are two types of characterization, which are direct and indirect. Direct characterization is when “we do not have to figure out what a character’s personality is like the writer tells us directly.” (Elements of Literature 1191) Indirect characterization is when “we have to exercise our own judgment, putting clues together to figure out what a character is like.” (Elements of Literature 1191)One of the examples of characterization in The Island of Dr. Moreau, is “A youngish man with flaxen hair, a bristly straw-colored mustache, and a dropping nether lip was sitting and holding my wrist.” (Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau, 4) This is describing someone who was in a cabin with Pendrick at the beginning of the story. Another example is “This individual stared fixedly at me without moving or speaking. The black-faced cripple was glaring at me as fixedly in the brows near the puma.” (Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau, 23) This is describing one of the odd creatures glaring at Pendrick while he was on the boat looking around at things. My third and final example of characterization is “He was a powerfully built man, as I have said, with a fine forehead and rather heavy features; but his eyes had that odd drooping of the skin above the lids that often comes with advancing years.” (Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau, 23) This is a white haired man that Pendrick sees while he is on the ship with Montgomery on his way to the island. All of these examples are of direct characterizatioThere are also many examples of characterization in The War of the Worlds. One example is “The uncovered part had the appearance of a huge cylinder, caked over and its outline softened by a thick scaly dun-coloured incrustation. It had a diameter of about thirty yards.” This is directly describing to the reader what the mysterious canister looks like on the outside and that there is most likely something in it. (Wells, The War of the Worlds, 17) The next two quotes that I have also describe direct characterization. They both describe the creature coming out of the canister. Firstly, one quote is “greyish billowy movement movements, one above another, and then two luminous disks-like eyes” (Wells, The War of the Worlds, 26) This is describing the Martians as they first see the signs of them emerging. Lastly, another quote that is describing the Martians is “The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of a chin beneath the wedge like lower lip.” (Wells, The War of the Worlds, 27) This is saying that the Martians have v-shaped mouths and no chin or brows. 

12. Literary Devices! • Mood/Atmosphere-Atmosphere and mood are closely related literary devices. It is defined as the “mood of feeling in a literary work.” (Elements of Literature, 1190) Pretty much, it is the feelings of the story. This is created through descriptive details and evocative language.The moods of the book The Island of Dr. Moreau are fear and wonder. Wonder is a crazy thing, it can strike at any moment and make you act a certain way. In the Island of Dr. Moreau, when Pendrick is first rescued from the ocean and nurtured back to health he hears strange animal noises on the ship making him wonder about the people that picked him up and what they are doing. Another example of wonder is when Pendrick is locked in his room on the island and he hears strange puma cries and ventures out to explore what is really going on. An example of fear, is “I turned and saw the passages behind me blocked by another heavy brute with a huge grey face and twinkling little eyes, advancing towards me.” (Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau, 64) This made Pendrick stop for a second because he was so scared. He tries to run away through a narrow passage at this moment, but he runs into another monster instilling more fear in him.The mood and atmosphere of The War of the Worlds is pretty solemn and intense. In his book, the Martians first come to Earth leaving giant craters in the ground and when they first emerge they vaporize many people. People are dying left and right, which is very upsetting. The story gets pretty intense when the narrator is hanging in the edge of a Martian pit in a house with one other guy. This guy gives away to the Martians that they are in there because he would not shut up and he was going crazy. This causes the narrator to hide in the cellar for several days. The end of the story is very solemn, but happy at the same time. After so long, he is finally reunited with his wife, which is a great thing. He states “And the strangest of all is to hold my wife’s hand again” (Wells, The War of the Worlds, 202)

13. Literary Devices! • Foreshadowing-Foreshadowing is “The use of clues to hint at what is going on at what is going on.” (Elements of Literature, 1195) Foreshadowing spikes the reader’s curiosity and builds up the suspense of what is going to happen next. It keeps the reader’s attention to a book.The War of the Worlds actually starts out with examples of foreshadowing almost right of the bat. He says things like “That this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s” (Wells, The War of the Worlds, 9) This is hinting at the fact that something was coming and that Earth has more to worry about then man. Another example of foreshadowing the very same page is “Perhaps almost a narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.” (Wells, The War of the Worlds, 9) This is saying how humans are only narrowly escaping things greater then their planet and something will eventually catch up with them. Lastly, Wells says “Regarded this world with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew there plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came great disillusionment.” (Wells, The War of the Worlds, 9) This is basically for sure telling us that aliens are coming, especially because of the last sentence.In the book, The Island of Dr. Moreau there are many examples of foreshadowing in the initial chapters. When Pendrick first wakes up on the ship he hears strange animal noises, so he asks Montgomery what it is and he gives a very vague answer leaving himself sounding suspicious. This makes the reader wonder and think that there might be something bad going on there. Secondly, on the ship Pendrick encounters M’ling. He is so weird and grotesque looking that he makes quite and impression on him. This makes the reader wonder how he got to be so weird looking, which is foreshadowing the work that is being done to get these creatures that way. Lastly, on Pendricks last night on the ship he has terrible nightmares of what he recalls to be about “guns and howling mobs.” (Wells,The Island of Dr. Moreau, 9) This foreshadows the savage life Moreau and Montgomery live on the island. 

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