Litcharts makes it easy to find quotes by chapter, character, and theme. They were huge round bodiesor, rather, headsabout four. The war of the worlds describes the fictional 1895 invasion of earth by aliens from mars who use laserlike heatrays, chemical weapons, and mechanical threelegged fighting. As with other classics i have seen the film adaptation but never read the book. Wells was published in 1898 at a time when he wrote a series of novels related to a number of historical events of the time.
Release jeff waynes musical version of the war of the. What literary device is used at the end of chapter 7. The war of the worlds can be read as an indictment of european colonial actions around the globe at that time with which the injustice of the martian invasion can be compared. Wells this study guide consists of approximately 57 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character. Find a summary of this and each chapter of the war of the worlds. Scattered groups were hurrying from the direction of woking, and one or two persons were returning. It was on the sixth day of our imprisonment that i peeped for the last time, and presently found myself alone.
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