ine-pins.’‘And then, looking more nearly into their features, I saw some furtherpeculiarities in their Dresden-china type of prettiness. Their hair, which was uniformlycurly, came to a sharp end at the neck and cheek; there was not the faintest suggestion ofit on the face, and their ears were singularly minute. The mouths were small, with brightred, rather thin lips, and the little chins ran to a point.”(27-28) The time traveler goes onto describe the Eloi as very child-like in their thinking and behavior. They seemedalmost indifferent and uninterested. For example, the Eloi really don’t concentrate onone thing for very long.Another example from the story that illustrates the Eloi is the time that one ofthem almost drowns. The time traveler relates the event. “It happened that, as I waswatching some of the little people bathing in a shallow, one of them was seized with acramp and began drifting downstream. The main current ran rather swiftly, but not tooswiftly for even a moderate swimmer. It will give you an idea, therefore, of the strangedeficiency in these creatures, when I tell you that none made the slightest attempt torescue the weakly crying little thing which was drowning before their eyes.”(52) Thetime traveler rescues the girl from drowning, whose name is Weena. Weena kind ofattaches herself to the time traveler and is sort of a friend. Weena tags along with thetime traveler whenever she can. The time traveler even mentions later in the story that heplans on taking Weena back in time with him. This is the part of the book were the second race a “people” is introduced. Theauthor introduces them in a horror story way, by giving just brief, mysterious glimpses ofthese monsters at first and then describing them more completely later on. The firstknowledge the time traveler gains of the Morlocks, as they are called, is by a chanceencounter. The time traveler was looki...
