War Of The Worlds

Front 1

What quote does the author use to describe the unfair nature of the war between men and martians?

Back 1

'It never was a war, any more than there is a war between men and ants'

Hint 1

He dehumanized men as ants in this quote...

Front 2

Which quote did H G Wells to compare the war with martians to all other past wars?

Back 2

'Never before in the history of warfare had destruction been so indescriminent or universal'

Front 3

Which quote does wells use to make the news of the martians underwhelming?

Back 3

'Many people heard of the cylinder and talkied about it in their leisure, but it certainly did not make the sensation that an ultimatum to Germany would have gone'

Hint 3

'Ultimatum to Germany'

Front 4

What does the narrator say to show lack of hope?

Back 4

'For a time I believed that mankind had been wiped out and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive'

Hint 4

'The last man left alive'

Front 5

How does the narrator try to give the martians human like features?

Back 5

'One might say a face'

Front 6

How does Wells reference himself in the text and the narrator?

Back 6

'A certain speculative writer'

Front 7

How do we see a 'lack of person' in the narrator?

Back 7

'Strange detachment from myself'

Front 8

How is the narrator descrined as 'overly emotional'?

Back 8

'A battleground of fear and curiosity'

Front 9

How are the martians alienated and described as strange?

Back 9

Wells uses the words 'heaved and pulsated' to describe the martians.

Front 10

Conplete the quote about the martians 'there was something .... in the .... skin'

Back 10

'There was something fungoid in the oily brown skin'

Front 11

How does Wells show the self-destructive nature of humans?

Back 11

'Ruthlessness and utter destruction our own species has wrought'

Front 12

How does Wells show a weakness in the martians?

Back 12

'Found a voice for its fear and solitude'

Front 13

How does Wells make the reader sympathetic to the Martians?

Back 13

'To carry warfare sunward is their only escape from destruction'

Front 14

What does the curate think the martians are?

Back 14

The martians are 'God's ministers' sent to punish sins.

Hint 14

Religious retribution

Front 15

How is the curate presented as hypocritical when trapped with the narrator in the house overlooking the martians.

Back 15

He turns from self-depricating to hoarding food: 'on me and mine be punishment laid'

Front 16

What quote does the curate use that alines with what the narrator says near the beginning of the book.

Back 16

'Opressors of the poor and needy' this is similar to the narrators point of the lack of care for Tasmanians.

Front 17

Whta does the artilleryman say that gives us the impression that he his satisfyed with the end of the world?

Back 17

He responds to the crisis with 'life is real again'

Front 18

How does Wells portray the artilleryman as working class?

Back 18

When he speaks he doesnt use 'h's

Front 19

How do we see the flawed nature of the artilleryman described?

Back 19

'Undisciplined dreamer'

Front 20

What line gives us the impression that the artilleryman enjoys the martian induced apocalypse?

Back 20

'There won't be any more blessed concerts for a million years or so'