Analysis Of The Time Machine, By H. S. Wells

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As a writer and a scientist, H.S. Wells changed the world’s sight on science with Time travel, Invisibility, and Alien attacks. Called the Father of Sci-Fi, he wrote the Time Machine, the Invisible man, and War of the Worlds, and with these books he introduced these topics. In the Time Traveler, he talks about a man who, after some time travel, finds a utopian land where he meets these creatures called Eloi, and their counterparts, the Morlocks. He realizes that these are the two evolutions of humans, and upon this, goes farther into the future where he discovers the crab people, and returns to his dinner party to tell his tales. This story talks about Wells’ views on the future evolutions of human, and how a man can time travel. In the Invisible man, it talks about a man who makes his blood transparent, and in this process, decides to rampage Britain with his newfound “power”. He disguises in bandages so he seems normal, …show more content…
What would happen to your food that you just ate? These are two of the many questions that Wells answers in his own way in his book, The Invisible man. This man, Griffin, turns himself invisible by making his blood clear, creating the first invisible man. At first, he is just trying to live a life by covering his whole body with clothes, and in order for him to be completely invisible, he would die of hypothermia, die of starvation or be exposed by rain, food, sleet or getting ran into. He can only be found if one of these problems would happen. Griffin, after a long day, runs into a crowd trying to get to someone, and is caught and beaten to death. He also talks about animal abuse, as Griffin tests the invisibility shot on a cat who gets killed shortly afterwards. He says: “"I processed her. But giving drugs to a cat is no joke, [Dr. Kemp]!” and this Dr Kemp, he was fascinated and pressed for more answers on the experiment: “How long did it

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