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war of the worlds

ouse with a clergymen for fifteen days as Martian invasion craft landed outside. He stayed in the house until he was sure there were no Martians outside. After he left he followed the path of destruction left behind as the Martians headed towards London. He found dogs and birds picking at the scraps of the dead aliens. He later found out hey died by disease as he met back up with his with and cousin at his partially destroyed house. Then he ended the story saying how they must prepare for a future attack and become more open minded to the fact that they aren't the only intelligent life around but to become better than the martians the must be humble to learn so they can surpass them.This book covers a pretty outrageous topic of Alien invasion. Although the topic is a little far fetched, the idea of a greater culture and species other than our own being out there in the far reaches of space is not all that unbelievable. The book shows that the possibility of an invasion from Mars is not likely to happen but gives a vivid account of how people might react if the envelope of security they lived in was shattered by the discovery of a greater species. Showing at first the panic and fear of ignorance then the mans' nature would begin to show. Humans would want to prove that they are the top of the evolutionary scale and begin to fight. In the case of the book mans' war against the Martians was a futile effort losing many lives and their pride. It came to the point where the artillaryman began to talk of suicide missions and how it isn't worth living if they were living under the martians rule. Mans' ability to think and reason logically had disappeared and his primal instincts of survival and revenge began to show. In the late l9th century the world was in the midst of the beginnings of World War I. World War I shows us how a group of people believing that they are superior can cause conflict, fear, anxiety and panic among the rest of soc...

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