To Build A Fire Character Analysis

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The way the time traveller develops in the novel is very interesting because he through many changes like most people go through in their life span. The novel gives many great examples on how the time traveller changes in the story. He develops himself into a new person during the climax when he develops a new friendship and almost finds forbidden love. Throughout the story his guests think of him as a smart aleck, a little know it all. People from britain think he is clever but a little too clever for their liking. He may be a scientific genius and a top notch inventor, but he is a big time jocker. The way he develops when he goes into the future it makes him realize the harder it is to survive, also that you can't always do things …show more content…
While exploring with the time traveller weena gets into many problems which then the time traveller has to rescue her. This events lead to their friendship developing and eventually developing into a romance. By rescuing weena he shows his heroism and his true personality. Around the time that the traveller finds out that the morlocks eat the eloi, by finding this out he wants to take weena and go back to his timeline in london. As soon as he mentions morlocks and time travelling she begins to cry because she is scared. He tries to calm her down by telling she will be safe if she goes with him this hurts him because he starting to care alot more for …show more content…
While they were at their camps for the nights he had to make a fire for light, weena always wanted to play with the fire he had to keep her away from the fire. When they find his time machine he hurrys to turn the power on and get ready to get back to his time while fighting off morlocks. While fighting weena saw a fire and went towards the fire and gets burned she died from her injuries. The time traveller ends up going back to his time while going back in his mind he was thinking about how much he wanted to get to the future and now he wants to go back to the past. Memories of his travel were flowing right after one and another one memory seemed to stay in his mind which was the end of time in other words the end of the world. Now that he made it back to his time he is going to tell his guest this story and important information but his guest don't really take him serious so it's like a made up tale.
Throughout his failures and his success he gains friends, and trust. He achieved many goals he set throughout his travels and experiments. ‘’The time traveler, whose name we never learn, expects to find himself in a utopian future where socialism has transformed the world. Instead, he emerges from his travels in what appears to be a combination of park and wilderness.’’(D'Ammassa, Don). ‘’ As the Traveller again departs, he leaves behind a flower of

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