1. H.G. Wells and War of the Worlds
... woods. With the clever use of foreshadowing, Wells lets his readers in on the fact that the martians, in the end, will be destroyed. In Chapter 2, the narrator of the novel explains that: "Micro-organisms, which cause so much disease and pain on earth, have either never appeared upon Mars or ... that can shoot rays of heat, towering high above the ground. The narrator first comes across one of the massive machines; he cannot believe how it responds to the Martian. In Chapter 10, Wells states, "it was no mere insensate machine driving on its way. Machine it was, with a ringing metallic pac...
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- Grade Level: High School