Sean.Z

1/30/11 pages 1-13

The War Of The Worlds By H.G. Well, today is January 30th

So far The War of the Worlds has been an interesting book. I have read up to page 13 so far which is in chapter 2. The book takes place in the year 1898, and starts out with a narration by the author (Who is also the main character) , which states that the thought of alien life has not been thought of ever being near the end of the of the nineteenth centuary. Then, it will cut into the main character, most likely himself, studying the star patterns at the observatory that he worked at. Over the course of 10 nights an odd sort of flame was sprouting up at the surface of mars. Then came the night when it happened. He was switching shifts with another character important to the start of the book (important character), Ogilvy, in which they started stating their beliefs of which the flaming could mean. When Wells mentions alien life, Ogilvy tells him that ' s an inferior answer.

While Ogilvy is looking through the telescope at the observatory, he sees a shooting meteorite come from Mars. He notices that it is coming closer and that it will hit land, which it soon does. He heads to the site of the crash. Instead of a meteorite, it is a perfectly rounded metal disk that has a top slowly spinning. He tries to touch the object only to notice that it is super-heated. Eventually, passerbys start to stand around and stare at the object. Soon many people are there including Wells. Ogilvy is no where to be seen due to the fact that he headed of with a reporter for the newspaper.

There is not much to think of the characters descriptions. There is nothing said about the look of the charecters although by what the characters do say can tell the personalities. Wells (the last name of the main character and what I have come to call him) seems to be calm and has a wide imagination. I can tell this from his idea of martians and hgim staying so calm while staring at the slowly opening disk. Ogilvy can get a little nervous and panic in situations that he has no control over and has a superior mind. I can tell this because he imediatly got nervous and started to shout at the sight of the disk from the sky and that he out said Wells at the observatory. Nothing can be said about their appearences.

I have several predictions on what will happen next. I can tell that much more is going to happen. I also have some questions to ask about what is going on. "How can anything live, if anything is, inside of an extremely hot, metal, disk?" Another is "Why would any kind of martian creature want to come to earth? That is all I have to say.

Sean, nice work! However, I'd like to know more about how you feel about the book. Why did you choose it? What about the story has you interested? Is it easy/difficult to read or understand? Do you like the main characters? Does the plot make sense? I'd like more written in your opinion pararaph for your next entry. -Miss Bond (Sorry, Didnt know how to change the text color)

2\7\11 pages 13-39 The plot has gotten much more exiting since the last entry. The martians finally had the top unscrew and the hideous creatures came out. They had struggled to get out due to the weight change of the planetary effect. The first one fell out onto the ground as a mass blob of grey flesh while the other stayed inside the disk. The man fleed by about 300 yards and stayed for a short while. Then, the martians still inside the disk sent out a ray of mass heat killing 40 people or so. The man headed home to get his wife and flee with her to their cousins. There were able to find a horse and had a wagon and made the several mile trip to the cousins house. Wells then realized that he had left something at home and, not wanting to go, had to go back even though begged by his wife not to. When he made it back to town, it looked as though everything was deserted, even though he knew everyone was asleep. Then he saw the large disk come over the hill looking as a tripod, it had finally was dug out of the ground.

The book has interested me so far and I would be happy to answer your questions. It sometimes is difficult to understand but I am completely able to understand. I choose the book because it was another book suggested by my father. The main characters are quite interesting even though I have no clue what they look like. The book makes a good amount of sense to me. I would also be happy to recommend this to anyone who could understand the british wording. I really like this book so far.

Nothing much has changed about the characters. Ogilvy has died from the heat ray and I also learned Wells is quite brave. He went back to the town even in the horror that he faced. He also cares much for his family for getting his wife to safety before thing got worse in town. His wife is also a quite interesting character. I can tell she worries for her husbands safety. My prediction for my next reading is that something bad will happen to Wells seperating him and his wife for a long time.

2\12\11 pages 39-63 More has added on to the plot since my last entry. Fleeing from the Tripod, Wells heads to his house. He heads upstairs to his study to get a better view of the destruction from the large window. He sees a man in the dark of his yard and calls him to come in. He brings the stuttering and scared man food. The man starts to slowly tell his story and, later, Wells figures out that the man he was talking to is part of one of the military battery. Wells is taken to a small ecampent with the man to make it back to Leatherhead (The town where his wife is). The man explains to his captain what he saw, and the captain, barely believing what he here, tells the man to tell the general at another encampment what he saw. Wells and the military man split up. Wells eventually reaches a near by river, guarded bythe military, where people are escaping on boats. A Tripod comes and an instant battle breaks out, Wells notices that the heat ray wouldent work well with water and shouts for everyone to jump in. The Tripod collapses into the water after a fierce battle. After extracting a small cold from the river, he continues on. He reaches a river where an abandoned boat is. He strips himself of most his clothes and swims over. Now somewhat delusional from becoming deathly sick (which started from the cold) he stuttered across the land taking several naps along the way. Once while waking up from a nap, he meets a very biblical man.

still, barely anything about the characters has changed, but there is always something to say. The biblical man, known as the curate, you can tell he must be a priest and/or deacon. He seems to believe the tripods are creatures sent by god to start the begging of the end. He is amazed to heaer that one of the Tripods was taken down by the lake. The militia man, or, the military man as I described him earlier, seems to be a nervous wreck. He was freaking out once coming along and meeting Wells. He calmed down after a while though.

I still find this book interesting. It still makes very much sense to me and I really like reading how most people wrote and talked back in the 19th centuary. It is amazingly detailed how this book is described. I would reccomend this to anyone to read. I think that there is going to be much more going with the curate in the future chapters. I also predict that the martians are going to gain the uper hand.

2\18\11 pages 64-100 (End of book 1)

This book is endlessly becoming more interesting. The story has changed from Wells and the Curate to the brother of Wells and his escape from London. Wells tells the desprate story of his brothers escape buetifly. He escpaed just nearly from a deep, poisonus fog. He then mety of with two women and their horse about to be mugged. The brother saved the two women and their horse from the theives. Their travels continued on until they reached a long line of people trying to travel away from the martians. They travel away from the large group. They then have to turn in another direction towards the sea. On their way to the docks, they meet a group of people who they stay with. Sadly, they have to slaughter the horse for provisions. They eventually get to the sea and are brought away after a battle nearly strikes them. While the three are sailing away, a large dark object can be seen coming out of the sky, leading darkness across the land...

The characters have changed a lot due to the 37 page mini-story. He brother is a caring man. I remember reading in the book that, while he was still in London, he worried for his brother after hearing of the Marians. The two women dont cause too large of an impact on the story. They are just two small side characters. They did help along the way to the docks though. I found these characters interesting.

The War of the Worlds is very interesting to me. I just love how marvolously the two stories were combined. The whole side story was narrated by Wells and it was always easy to tell by him making remarks of him being related (brothers). The story is just greatly put together and well written. The end of book one (I have both combined into one) was just great. How the three side story characters viewed what seemed as death coming upon the United Kingdom.

2/25/11 pages 101-117

The start of the new book was interesting. Book two represents earth under the Martains. The Curate and Wells are still together in the fight for their life. In the two chapters I read, I was able to learn the anatomy of the martian. For one whole chapter, Wells described how the inside of the Martain was. It was bassically a giant head that looked like a blob with lungs.He also figured out what the martians need to survive, blood.The martians were capturing the humans to survive. They were probably running out of the blood resource on Mars and came to earth just for the blood. The aliens would inject the blood directly into their viens. They had no stomachs so their lives mainly depended on the blood they gatherd.

No new characters have been introduced. The curate is still a jumpy person. He seems to have some kind of extreme paranoia. He refuses to be left alone by Wells and will follow him where ever he goes. Wells is still brave and some how surviving this nightmare. He mentioned in the two chapters I read that he was a sqeamesh person explaining why he did not mention more about how the aliens anatomy looked. I still find him to be a great character.

I am starting to love how 19th centuary Englannd wrote. It is interesting to read and I have always loved that. The book is always getting easier to understand.I have no troubles reading the book anymore. I feel that peeople should read the book instead of watching the movie. The movie is a whole new version of the storys telling and only involves the Martians. The movie is just fragments of the book.

3/1/11 pages 118-135

After being trapped within a ruined house for several days, the Curate and Wells finally start to crack. The Curate acts as though a needy child taking most of the food for himself leaving barely any for Wells. They fight for the peephole to see whats going on outside. Eventually Wells started to limit the Curates food. They eventually go too far. They start attacking each other. Around this time, an axe or hatchet was taken from the kitchen. The Curate starts yelling out to the heavens asking for goods help. He may be a religious man, but from this he pupously alerted the Martians. The Curate was then hit on the head very hardly with the back of the axe. The Martian gathering machines had their tentacles search the house. Wells hid in the coal celler and allowed the Martian to take the Curate's body along with it taking all the food (Unknown why it took the food, they only inject theirselves with blood. The Martians kept in the location a few days longer. Over the course, Wells starved and was able to get dirty water from an indoor pump. The Martians planted an un-earthly plant, a red weed that would rapidly grow. By the time Wells left the house, he washalf dead, starved, and thirsty.The world around him had been consumed by the red weed.

The characters in the fiction are started to get desprate. The Curate went insane while the UK collapsed. I had a feeling there was something wrong with him. Eventually, he went to far, attracting a harvester, and then getting hit with an axe and then harvested. Wells is managing to stay sane enough to actually think naturally, but I can tell he is heading down the same road as The Curate. I can feel his slow descent into becoming insane. I am surprised he has lived this long.

This story is amazingly well detailed. I can actually feel the story play out in my head. I can view what the Martian Tri-Pods would actually look like. I can actually feel the characters coming alive. This book is just an amazing that i would, as said before, reccomend to anyone. I love this book and I am some what upset that I am almost finished with it. Though short by only 164 pages, it was one of the best books I have read yet.

135-164 (End)

Much has changed from what I read to the end. Much occurs in the final chapters. After traveling through the new, dead, England, Wells witnesses the horrors of the work of 15 or 16 days of destruction. After continuing on for some time, he meets up with the artilary man from earlier in the book. They discuss plans to create a colony safe from the Marians where they could learn of their behavior. Of course, they have deifferences in each of their plans. One thing in common was life underground with tunnels from drains to pipes to subways and so on. They start to dig and get quite far aftera few hours. That night, Wells headed to London to put his part of the plan in to ignition. He would have to obtain all the knowledge he could find and gather books. Here in London is where Wells learned of the Martians fate. Scattered through out a park were dead martians and fallen Tri-Pods. They had been over come by disease and germs of the earth world! Afterwards, Wells travled for several days as the world came back into place. He was confused for these days of traveling. He barely had a clue what was going on. He stayed with a nice family for a few more days and learned of the fate of Leatherhead, the place where his wife was. Grieved over her death, he kept traveling. Then, a miracle occured. He found his wife and his cousin. Finally, the world to him had fallen back into place.

This was a great book to read. In my opinion, the ending was both interesting and great to read. This book could bring many question to someones mind. As an example "Could there really be life on mars?". Infact, I could ask that, but it probably is false. All the technology of our time that has gone up there and has never found any form of intellagent life. I still find this to be a great book. This will be the final time I say this, but, I highly reccomend this.One of the best books I have ever read.

Nothing much new on the characters. After Wells traveled aimlessly for a few days, I could tell he was partly insane after all that happened. It was nice of that family to help him out. The artilary man had obviously changed. His expieriences has made him a braver man. He was willing to risk his life for the human races survival. He was a great character though only appearing twice.