waroftheworlds

Alex McGlone- A Sean Carney- B Andrew Kearney- C Mike DiMeglio- D

Week One
There were no descriptions of the characters in the first 5 chapters. They really just talked about what was going on at the time. Everything was in first person.
 * Characters**


 * Questions**

1. What came out of the cylinder after it hit the earth and what do they think was inside? **They thought it was a martian and some thought there was a manuscript inside because there was no movement when the hit it.** 2. How many people came over to see what was happening with the cylinder? **2 or 3 hundred people were watching the cylinder.** 3. What were the aliens goals when they came to Earth? **To keep people as slaves and to conquer Earth** 4. What did the people of earth mistake the aliens as when they were coming towards Earth? **They mistaken it as a meteorite and as a flaming gas in the sky.** 5. What causes a man to burst into flames? **The cylinder lifts out of the pit shoots a flame at the man and every one gets scared. They all vanish from the scene hiding behind trees and stuff.**


 * Summary**


 * In the beginning of the book a man sees a red or greenish color hit the earth. The next day goes out to try to find it. It finds it in the sand. At first he thinks that it was a a rock and he finds a stick and starts hitting it to see if something comes out. After many people come out and look at what he found. The news reporters came also to find information about what was going on. Then 2 or 3 hundred people were watching this cylinder and they were sacred and they were hiding behind trees and bushes and other objects. One man walks over to this huge hole and he falls into it. Other people go and help him out. Then a group of people try to wave a white flag, sign of nonresistance. Then suddenly a flame shoots up from the hole and the people hear a hissing sound.**

Week 2
The book is very easy to read so far. The concepts and the words are not hard at all to understand. I feel like this book is below our reading level so far from what we have read.
 * Reading**


 * Questions**

1. How affective was the weapons that the aliens used to kill the humans and destroy the town? **The weapons that they used was so powerful that once you got shot with it you were disintegrated. ** 2. Where does the main character visit to in Chapter 7? **Oriental Terrance** 3. What did the aliens send down from their planet to earth? **They sent a second cylinder and it was near where the first on landed.** 4. Who does the main character think happened to this person? **He thinks that Ogilvy is died** 5. What was the talk of the town that everyone was get scared about? **The martian release a heat ray across the country side.**


 * Summary**


 *  Word of the Heat-Ray spreads to the nearby towns of Cobham, Woking, and Ottershaw. Hundreds of people come to observe what is coming on. When the ray is turned on the crowd, it is unable to kill everyone because it is being fired from down in the pit, but two women and a little boy are trampled in the rush to get away from the Martians. The narrator returns to his home, on the way hearing people talk about the Martian ship. His wife has dinner on the table. She has not heard anything about all of this until he tells her what he saw. The morning newspapers report on the Martians, but they say that they would never be able to threaten the planet because the Earth’s gravity, much stronger than the gravity of Mars, would weigh them down.While they can hear hammering sounds from within the pit where the Martians have landed, the army sends soldiers to surround the cylinder. A second cylinder from Mars arrives on Earth, landing not too far from the first.The day is like an ordinary Saturday, except that everyone is talking about the Martians. The Martians release the Heat-Ray across the countryside, and it reaches for miles around. The narrator rents a dog cart from his landlord to take his wife away from their home, which is too close to the invaders, to live with his cousin in Leatherhead, twelve miles away. **

Week 3

So far the mood of the book is destruction and fear. A lot of people are dying from the aliens. Their technology is far advanced and their lasers melt and destroy anything in their path.
 * Mood**


 * Questions **

1. The scenes in chapter 12, the Martians had destroyed everything. What does it remind you of? **It remind us as if they were back in Rome when the volcano exploded in Pompeii where you can see everyone and everything is frozen in time.** 2, Where is the next place that the Martians are trying to take over? **They are trying to take over London.** 3, What are the Martians are resembled as in Chapter 15 as? **The are resembled as blight because they are withering the hope of the humans and the life of them.** 4, What did the author due to help show emphases of the Martians destruction? **He contrasted the calm and tranquil night to being one of the dead people floating in the river after being under attack.** 5, Where did the Martian's machines vanish after the attack in Chapter 11? **The Martian's machines hide back into the pit where they first came out.**


 * Summary**


 * Chapter 11-A new tripod transforms out of the pit and the martians consider it as Titan. The Martians attack the town for the whole night picking up the people, shooting them with the heat waves, smashing them into trees and such. At the end of the destruction the three martian machines sat back into the pit and stayed in it for the night. Chapter 12-Firstly, the scenes described here are similar to Pompeii, whose inhabitants were buried under volcanic debris and ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted. The charred bodies in the road and the dropped possessions have frozen the moment of the appearance of the Martians on the town. Secondly, the artilleryman’s comment that “It’s bows and arrows against the lightning, anyhow,” brings to mind the European conquest of the Americas. Chapter 13-Sodom and Gomorrah refers to the Bible (Genesis 19:24), when “sulphurous fire” came down and destroyed the two cities. The conversation between the narrator and curate are representative of the debate between science and religion, which was a strong issue at the time it was it written. Chapter 14- One of the literary elements in this chapter is based on contrasts. In one paragraph, a tranquil sky is described, which is followed by a simple statement that there could be a dead man floating in the river. This structure is effective in conveying the atmosphere of London, where the arrival of the Martians is gradually taking over the normal patterns of life. Chapter 15-The Martians are described as resembling “a speck of blight,” which is appropriate. Blight can mean either a plant disease that results in wilting and death (similar to the Heat-Ray’s effect on plants) or it can refer to something that destroys hopes, which the Martians’ destruction has certainly done. **

Week 4

 * Themes and Images:** The author uses death and destruction to display fear and panic. Fire is used as well for that. The brother with the two women displays hope and will to survive.

**Summary:** In __chapter 16__, people are dieing and things are getting crazy. People are fighting each other now just so they can get out of London and survive. The brother saves two women who are getting mugged on his way to his friends place. He joins the women in their carriage and takes a route to leave the country. They travel through a town where people are dieing and houses are on fire. One man gets run over by a carriage after he drops all of his money. In __chapter 17__, people are still trying to escape London as the martians continue to move closer. The narrator's brother sees the sixth cylinder fall and later that night the seventh cylinder falls. That is the end of London as it is overtaken. The brother and the two women get their carriage stolen so they are forced to continue on foot. They come to the river and take a steamer boat to leave. Ironclad ships appear for their protection when 3 martians start to approach. The ship shoots a missile at the martians with little effect. The martian uses its heat ray back and it penetrates a whole in the hull. The ironclad still keeps going though and responses with stronger firepower to bring the martian down. The second martian hits the ship with another heat ray causing it to explode but the second martian is taken out with it. In __chapter 1, book 2__, the narrator is alone in a house that he has been hiding in for some time. He finally decides to leave when one martian comes closer. On his journey after leaving, he sees many dead people and animals. The narrator is on his way to Leatherhead where his wife is. They hide from a martian on their way in a ditch until morning. They find a house down the road where they find food and water. Then a green flash and small explosion sends the narrator flying backwards. He is knocked out while parts of the ceiling are collapsing. The curate who has been following him is trying to help him. A martian is outside on patrol at the same time. What happened was the fifth cylinder landed right near them. In __chapter 2__, the 5th cylinder has landed on top of a house. The pits impact had made the hole much bigger. There are three differences between Martians and men. They do not need rest, since they do not have a substantial muscle structure. They do not have sex and instead reproduce through budded growths, which is known since a Martian was born while on Earth. Finally, they either have gotten rid of, or never had, any microorganisms. On a more apparent level, the Martians do not wear clothes, but rather switch bodies to the one most appropriate for whatever task. Also, their technology does not involve the wheel or fixed pivot at all, but is far more complex. In __chapter 3__, the curate and narrator are having a tough time getting along. The curate is hogging the limited food and drink and the narrator can only control him by using force. Three more machines appear and one martian pulls out a man. He gives the man to one of the other martians in the pit to feed on. The narrator and curate later escape when the martians start to leave the pit.

Questions
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Week 5

This book is already a classic so yes it will be famous for years to come. I would recommend this book to my peers because it is a quick read and you get lost in it. It is a very good book with a lot of adventure and science fiction. I do not think that it will ever become apart of school's curriculum though, because it would have been apart of the curriculum by now if it was to be. I do not think it will become apart of the curriculum because it does not have any themes or morals that relate to kids our age today. Most science fiction books to not have those types of themes.

Book 2 Chapter 4- The narrators is tired with the curate's fragile state of mind and that there is a limited supply of food and drink. Three more martians come to the pit and a second handling machine has been built. The Narrator couldn't really see any action because there was a constant smog of green that was interfering with his sight but there was 100 new aluminum bars that were built after the smog went away. The martians had noticed that curate and he started to panic and went to go hide. Book 2 Chapter 5- The narrator was left on the eleventh and twelfth day the martians left no food and drink. The narrator was left weak and discourage from have no food and drink. The narrator had seen some type of life, was a dog, but he was later killed by for food and to protect him from the martians. At the end of the chapter there is no site of anything, but there is dust and dead bodies. But after everything it is starting to look calm. Book 2 Chapter 6- It is the fifteen day the narrator that the animals had moving along through the weeds quickly. He had notices a stream and was able to drink water and save some for later. He also came across a garden with potatoes and was able to get food to satisfy his hunger for the moment Book 2 Chapter 7- After breaking into an inn that night to have some safety. The narrator sleeps on an actual bed for the first time in a while. He finds himself food and fills himself and his pockets with some biscuits that have escaped the notice of previous people that raided through the inn. With his improved circumstance and he is able to think-of the curate’s death, which brings up feelings of sadness and no regret because he didn't think through the circumstances. The martians had just finished with london and now is going to run another mass destruction in the morning. The narrator had meet up with and artilleryman, so there is a possible chance of survival. As the night went on they drank champagne and eat, the talked up the extent of life as the night went on. Book 2 Chapter 8- The narrator walks through London and it is full of disease. He has just became nothing land full of death and quietness. He saw a dirty old dead lady laying there on someone doorsteps. The narrator is overwhelmed with emotion at the sight of the city and thanks God that it will soon be as it was, as people begin to return. Strongest of all is the thought of his wife. Book 2 Chapter 9- As it turns out, the narrator was not the first to find out that the Martians had died off but instead one of the last. The previous night, others had found out and the first man to do so had sent off a telegraph to Paris. The news spreading joyfully about the world from there and food and men had begun pouring into London soon after. **The narrator himself does not the three days after his discovery, when he had apparently been wandering about London insanely until a family took him in. Book 2 Chapter 10- **The bacteria that killed off the Martians was a known earthly strain and this, along with the apparent lack of burial rites and their indiscriminate killing seem to indicate that the Martians were unfamiliar with death as we know it on Earth but nothing is certain. The makeup of the Black-Smoke remains a mystery as does the Heat-Ray, an examination of which was discouraged. There is still fear of further Martian attacks, though this is somewhat lessened by evidence to indicate that they may have landed on Venus
 * Summary**

1. What had killed the martians off and gave the joy to everyone in london? **This bacteria had killed off all of the martians and the news spread like wild fire. The first person had sent a telegram to the news in Paris. Everyone went joyous and had re entered London.** 2. Who did the narrator meet that he stayed with for a while? **He meet an artillery man that he meet and drank and eat with him.** 3. After starving and dying from thirst what did he come across to satisfy it all? **He found a stream and a patch of potatoes.** 4.As he walks through london what does he come across? **He saw a dirty old lady dead on someone's footstep.** 5. Which days was he stuck with out any food or drinks? **The Eleventh and Twelfth day.**
 * Questions**