The War of the Worlds by HG Wells

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The War of the Worlds by H G Wells

This discussion will aim to explain what techniques H.G Well’s uses,

which makes ‘War Of The Worlds’ a gripping and successful story.

In This novel is basically about one mans account of Martians invasion

and war on earth; throughout this play reality and fantasy bonded

together to form the novel ‘The War Of The Worlds’. This novel was

written at the turn of the century in 1998. There was a couple of

events that inspired wells to write this story on of which was that in

1894 mars was positioned particularly closely to earth, leading to

great deal of observation and discussion. Another event would be also

in 1894 when an observer M. Javelle of Nice, claimed to have seen a

strange light on mars, which further stimulated speculations about

life upon the red planet. There are two part of this book, book one is

about the ‘coming of the Martians’ and the second one is about ‘earth

under Martians’

The reason why this novel in particular is gripping and successful is

that H.G Wells has many techniques in which he makes the reader feel

involved within the novel and feel as if they are really there and

part of the story, not just reading it. Wells also makes us believe

that the story is true and that it could really happen, he does this

by mixing science fact with science fiction.

At the time this novel was written it was only intended to be written

for a small amount of people normally Middle class and living in the

Authors area, this might of encourages H.G Wells to situate his novel

in London and by doing this all the readers felt at home and thought

of it as it was really going to take place and it would also seem more

interesting as it is set within the readers area...

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makes the book gripping and very successful.

I have finally come to a conclusion to which I came across by

evaluating the techniques used by H.G Wells. H.G Wells has included

science fact and science fiction, in depth description, suspense and

related events to reader’s experiences which makes this a successful

and gripping book to read that once you pick it up you cant put it

down. The description used in here is intense and realistic. Because

of the scientific details use some of which were fiction and some,

which were non-fiction that is what put the whole novel together,

bringing readers closer to the story and feeling involved. At the end

of the book I was pleased that I had picked it up and would advise it

to anybody it was an absolutely interesting read and to conclude I

think that ‘War Of The Worlds’ is a gripping and successful

story.

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