War Of The World Movie And Book Comparison

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No one would ever imagine an alien invasion in today’s society. The thought of the idea is simply preposterous. However, The War of the World's by H.G. Wells is about that very idea. The book introduces a small town in England, a ways from London, in which a cylindrical object falls from the sky and buries itself in the ground. The movie, War of the World's directed by Steven Spielberg, naturally differs from the book. The film starts off with a man in modern day New York, divorced with two kids, living his everyday life. Suddenly, a huge lightning storm erupts and repeatedly strikes in the same place 26 times. Movies and books always differ and in these two versions of War of the World's, they diverge from each other by Ogilvy’s combination …show more content…
The narrator does not know when they're going to get out of there, he creates a system of rationing. Unfortunately, the Curate did not agree. Instead they spent two days fighting. The Narrator spent eight days with the curate going on about how he's both unworthy and hungry. The Narrator gets into an argument with the Curate which leads to a final fight. He chases him with a meat cleaver, he hits the Curate with the butt end of the cleaver which knocks him out. “With one last touch of humanity I turned the blade back and struck him with the butt.” (Wells 153). Ogilvy was the first named person we met in the story, and he was the first one who discovered the Martian cylinder. However, in War of the World's directed by Steven Spielberg, Ogilvy was a combination of all three, the Artilleryman, the Curate, and Ogilvy himself. Ogilvy seems to first appear to be a protagonist and a helper to Ray and Rachel when they becomes helplessly separated from Ray's son, but soon he becomes out of control and he is seen as an antagonist and a threat to their

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