Time Machine: Similarities Between The Morlocks And Elio

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In the reading of the book time machine, I hated how it constructs the two groups and how they work. It gives me the sense of high school the popular vs. the loners that we all perceive. It really reminds me of mean girls the plastics vs the losers, where you see Regina George stereotype against Janis and Damian. In life, it is like comparing Protestants against Catholics, they are both people but they live very different ways of life. I see these Morlocks and Elio as on distinctive sides of the spectrum.

On one side of the spectrum is the Elio, who are “perhaps four feet high, clad in a purple tunic, girdled at the waist with a leather belt.” When the author first meets one he said that they “struck me as being a very beautiful and graceful

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