![]() ![]() The Narrator and the Curator witness the Martians working up close and see their odd, octopus-like bodies that control worker machines that haul materials into the massive pit. This sense of isolation is heightened when the Narrator finds himself trapped in the pantry of an abandoned house after a cylinder crashes on top of the house and the Martians begin to build. In addition to the panic caused by the dissolvement of governmental-agencies of protection, the tripods knock down telegraph wires and ruin railroads, further weakening the ability for humans to survive the invasion or communicate with one another. ![]() People are trampled to death in the streets as they attempt to evacuate the city. The suggested disorganizing of the military force and police force leave pedestrians to fend for themselves or flee on foot, causing mass panic and hysteria. Finally the Brother reaches a massive ship set to leave England and tells of the battle he witnesses as the tripods follow the ships into the water. It is not until one night when London is actually being invaded by the tripods and the black smoke, a solid-liquid that is described as a deadly substance foreign to all human knowledge of science, that the Brother and fellow Londoners begin to panic. Newspaper headlines told of the tragic killings of citizens of burroughs and counties surrounding London but Londonders themselves do not feel in danger and go about their days as normal. The Brother recounts the normalcy of the first few days. As they continue on their journey, the Narrator then tells of what his brother has told him of how the invasion came to London. His character is introduced by his desperate conversation with the Narrator he claims that the Martians are Gods’ personal agents and that Judgement Day has come. The Narrator is separated from the artilleryman and soon after comes across ‘the Curate.’ The Narrator describes the animal-like death of the mechanical tripod and even notes the ‘ruddy-brown’ fluid spurting up in pulses from the machine. At one point, the Narrator witnesses a group of army-men take down one of the tripods with strategic canon-fire before getting obliterated by anothers’ Heatray. They then attempt to flee, in which they encounter more tripods and more destruction as they pass through countryside and towns. The Narrator comes across an artilleryman whose entire fleet was wiped out by one of these humongous tripods, and they hide out in the Narrators’ house for some time. It is when these tripods appear that people begin to panic, realizing the potential danger that these mobile death-machines present. Descending from these tripods are long, flexible tentacles that grab things as it strides through the countryside, setting trees and villages on fire. From these cylinder-craters arise massive, monstrous tripods that move with an animate-like fluidity. ![]() He then returns home.Īfter some time of preparing, the Martians put their plans in motion. Eventually, after more death and destruction caused by the Heatray, the Narrator brings his wife to a neighboring town, thinking that this will keep her out of harms way. The Narrator even returns to his house for a cup of tea. Even though the newspaper had printed stories about the death of forty people at the hands of the Heatray, the community was relatively calm and went about their days as normal. Even though there is such a brief flash of violence so early into the invasion, the Narrator points out that everything, for the most part, remained the same. Its high technical capabilities reflect the supposed higher intelligence of the Martians as it reflects a light that sets onlookers on fire. The Narrator, who remains unnamed, describes the terrible Heatray of the Martians. This is where we find our Narrator near the beginning of the book… staring at one of these great cylinders that has just landed in the woods surrounding his town. Ten cylinders from space then fall from the sky and land in scattered areas around Great Britian. The Narrator begins by reintroducing Earth as a fertile oasis in the vast expanse of nothing and its inhabitants as, “transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.” He then introduces Mars as an old planet, close to its end. War of the Worlds is the classic tale of Martian invasion. ![]()
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