wn back to primitive conditions. He talks to Eloi and sees them as little children who the Morlocks exploit for food and labor. He gets involved with a girl and saves her from the Morlocks. He then returns to the year 1899 to retrieve several books so that he can go back and help the Eloi restart civilization. The parallels between The Time Machine and Connecticut Yankee are many. Both main characters come from 19th century America. Their ideas and beliefs are very similar. They both act in a very similar way. Both stories basically parallel each other. Both men are taken from their world and put in a world that seems primitive to them. They make moves to investigate the surroundings and assert themselves as a dominant force in the area. Hank Morgan recruits a select group of people to help him lay the framework for making Camelot modern. Morgan follows a very aggressive strategy of assimilation and slow conversion of Britain to America. While the Time Traveler is more pacifist. He only gets involved because he wishes the better the human race. They each may have different means but the outcomes are eventually the same. A dramatic change with a collapse back to the previous matter of lifestyle. In many cases a single man can shape the final outcome and the future of a civilization. Morgan was on the verge of doing this but his policies and changes where two drastic for the world he was in. In the book Earth Abides by George R. Stewart is a novel about a man who lives in an earth where 99% of the human population has been killed by plague. He goes around the country till finally settled down. As the years passed, he raised a family and a tribe. HE sets up a school, but it fails. He teaches things to his kids and grandchildren by picking a few who are every interested and teaches them simple things like how to make arrows and then bestows upon them some of his ideas and beliefs. When he dies at the end of the book, he leaves behi...
