Now H.G wells has taken you down for a few pages. Until the part when the lid of the cylinder unscrews and it is building up slowly to create suspense. He lets you imagine what’s happening with his similes this is not one but it let’s you ‘Nearly two feet of shining screw projected’.
When the cylinder is unscrewing there is an enormous crowd building up around the cylinder. They look dazzled and scared. H.G. Wells is saying and describing the crowd’s feelings. ‘Struggle appeared to be going on about the pit’ He’s saying that the crowd is curious to see what’s going on down there in the pit. Again the people are curious to see ‘The crowd swayed a little, and I elbowed my way in’. When the crowd is curious to see what’s going on that is creating terror.
The crowd is still there looking curiously down into the pit. Before the heat ray goes off one-man thinks that he really doesn’t want to go but he is too curious. ‘I was a battleground of fear and curiosity, but I felt a passionate longing to peer into the pit’ that makes you want to read on to see what happens to the man and it creates suspense. As it builds up to the heat ray H.G. Wells say’s there’s a hissing sound. ‘Then slowly the hissing passed into a humming, into a long, loud droning noise’ this allows you to imagine what sort of sounds the alien is making and this creates terror and suspense with not knowing what’s happening next. After the heat ray there is astonishment and a silence in the air. ‘The little group of black specks with the flag of white had been swept out of existence’ that gives the impression that every thing has gone and the surrender flag has been singed, there’s no more in London that’s gives suspense and terror.
H.G Well’s language is very technical and scientific (because he was a scientist when he was younger). He uses language to do with the senses so you can have them feeling for your self. ‘Then slowly the hissing passed into a humming, into a long, loud droning noise’ that quote from pages 22 really makes you know what the aliens heat ray is like. It gradually gets stronger with the noises. There is another one ‘Then it was as if an invisible yet intensely-heated finger was drawn through the heather between me and the Martians’ It’s as you can feel your finger heating.
H.G. Well’s use of a narrator speaking in the first person is able to create terror and suspense more easily because you see and experience things directly as they would. The author has more control and can stimulate the reader’s imagination.
H.G Wells describes humans that they are not as intelligent than the aliens are and small. But he just gives you a little bit of information so that the reader keeps interested. He says that the aliens have been watching earth for a long time ‘ scrutinising an studied’. And they’ve not communicated with Earth until the event.
H.G. well’s use’s imagery and language well, with the effects it has on the reader. The language is scientific probably because he was a scientist. He also use’s technical words like ‘scrutinised’ in the first chapter (page1). These words give the impression that it’s not all, old-fashioned words if the reader didn’t know when it was written they would probably think it’s modern. And it gives you a modern feel.
H.G. Well’s use’s language to help give a very different imagination for all the readers. The technical and scientific language gives a modern feel it is giving suspense, the description of the Alien gives a horrifying impression this is giving terror, the beginning where he is describing earth as a ‘morning star’ creates suspense.
