War Of The Worlds

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Milan Parmar                War Of The Worlds

War of the Worlds Coursework

How did the changes in the narrator reflect the writer’s concerns for humanities’ future?

        The narrator at the beginning of the book was a happy, well fed and servant supported man. The attack of the Martians changes the narrator’s life enormously. The changes of the narrator show the struggles of a man trying to avoid being exterminated by the Martians. The writer purposely leaves the man unnamed as he represents the struggle of mankind during the invasion of the Martians to create the feeling of empathy. Each change in the narrator shows how the writer has concerns for humanities’ future in the world. I will describe all the main changes in the main changes in the narrator and explain how this reflects the writer’s concerns for humanity with quotes relating certain changes in the narrator.

        The first change of the narrator is significant. It is one of the biggest changes in the narrator which shapes the rest of the time in which he avoids being exterminated. The narrator was a man that was content with his present circumstances and change was not necessary but after the invasion, it seemed difficult not to. He went from this to a situation where he was struggling for survival. This is a lot for a man to handle. His world of being content and living was destroyed due to the invasion of the Martians; he had to abandon his home and quickly became separated from his wife to fight for his life.

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“..But a panic terror not only of the Martians, but of the dusk and stillness all about me. Such an extraordinary affect in unmanning me it had that I ran weeping silently as a child might do. Once I had turned, I did not dare look back.”

This quote tells us that it his surroundings made him become distressed and upset, the reign of the Martians had begun, it is described as though they had brought an aura of terror to the atmosphere of the Earth, consequently, making mankind become pests to this brutal suppression. The narrator says that he ...

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