1/25/2019 4 Comments H.G. WellsAuthor’s Name: Herbert George Wells
Dates Alive: 1866-1946 (79 years old) Location: He was born in Bromley, United Kingdom Major Works: Some of him most popular books are: The Time Machine The War of the worlds The Island Of Doctor Moreau. Major Themes: Excessive greed can have unwanted consequences The human race as a whole doesnt like charge Don’t take things for granted Progress for the sake of progress The upper class takes things for granted Novel Choice Plot Summary: The story starts with the main character(The Time Traveler) talking to some of his friends and telling them about how he almost finished the time machine and it works with smaller objects but he hasn't tried it himself yet. The next day he trys it and goes into the future to year 802,701 AD. He finds himself in a kind of paradise world where these people called Eloi who give him fruit. The Eloi are small and pretty stupid, they also speak a different language, which the Time Traveler tries to decode. After the Time Traveller goes for a walk to explore the new world, he comes back to find his time machine is missing. He panicked and starts to freak out. After looking for a few days he passes a group of Eloi playing to river, he sees one Eloi drowning and no one helping her, he rushes in the river and saves her. All the Eloi thank the Time Traveller and the girl he saved “Weena” follows him everywhere. The Time Traveller finds a well with smoke coming out, he thinks it might hold the white ghostly creatures he sees at night called Morlocks. He decides to go down it to look for his time machine, Weena gets very scared when he goes down. After climbing down a very long ladder its pitch black and the Time Traveller starts walking down a hallway where he hears loud machines, he sees a pile of meat in the corner and after walking a little he starts to feel little hands grab him all over his body. He lits a match and they all run away. He runs back out the well but ends up using all the matches and finds that the Morlocks are afraid of light, which is why they only come up at night. After taking weena and trying to find a safer place, he acidentaly sets a forest on fire whaile he was having a war with the Morklocks, this turns the Morlocks blind and lets The Time Traveller escape, but he lost Weena and doesnt know where she is. He makes his way back to his original starting point and sees this pedistal and finds that it had been pride open and his time machine is sitting inside. As he walking into the pedistal the door closes behing him and he can hear the little laughs of Morlocks around him. After fixing the time machine while fighting off Morlocks he finnaly gets away and goes some more into the future where he finds giant crabs, huge flying butterfly like creatures, and everntually nothing but a “maybe” moving black rock, with the sky bitch black. The Time Traveller them returnes home and tells his story to his dinner geusts. Analysis of Main Characters: The biggest main character in “The Time Machine” is the Time Traveller, Wells never says a name for him and simply calls him “The Time Traveller” throughout the book. Wells doesnt say the names for most characters. For example during the introduction of the book all the people the Time Traveller is meeting with don’t have names, only titles, like the “Money man” and “Psychollogist”, the “Filby”, and the “Mayor”. The next biggest character is Weena who is an Eloi that The Time Traveller meets and she follows him throughout the book, she comes with him to look for his machine but ends up losing her on the way. Theme: The biggest theme I found in “The Time Machine” is that humans don’t like change. The time traveler traveled almost 1 millions years into the future and we had the same social classes as today just enhanced How did the author’s life influence his writing in this novel? (2-3 paragraphs) H.G. Wells life influenced his writing of this novel because the time he grew up in was filled with lots of time being put into working for other people by the lower class and the upper class was sitting around not really putting in any work. Wells was part of the struggling lower class and he saw his family go through lots of hard times. I think he wanted to write about what the future would be like with the same social ladder as when he was alive, and he figured out what it would most likely be if we didn't change the upper class and lower class, and he thought that the Eoli would become useless to everything and would loss all knowledge because they wouldn't need it. But the Morlocks were smart enough to know how to trap The Time Traveller so they showed some smarts. But it makes sense that they would have kept their smarts because they still have to make clothes and shoes and keep the upper class alive because that's what they have always done. Works Cited: “H.G. Wells.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 28 Apr. 2017, www.biography.com/people/hg-wells-39224. By: Madison L.
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Matthew P
1/31/2019 09:51:47 am
Are the Eoli the same physically as humans?
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Madison Lucas
1/31/2019 10:13:16 am
They have generally the same body shape just a little smaller, and their very fragile and skinny.
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Terrell Williams
1/31/2019 10:15:51 am
Did he have any more communications with Weena after the war against the Morlocks?
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Kiley Montague
2/3/2019 12:40:33 pm
Did it say why The Time Traveler wanted to go into the future or was he just doing it for an experiment?
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