In the exposition of this story the audience can immediately sense the mood of curiosity presented by the narrator. The setting is described, and the audience can picture the division between the humans on the foreground and the aliens in the pit. The different groups of people are described, and the fear is shown through their hesitation to get closer to the pit. The exposition introduces the idea that curiosity loses out to fear. In the rising action of the story the light has disappeared from the sky, and that ignites courage in some of the bystanders. Small crowds of humans begin to hesitantly descend upon the pit, and a more organized group of humans come from the distance waving their white flag trying to send a message to the martians.
