... In 1883 Wells became a teacher and pupil at Midhurst Grammar School. He got a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London and studied biology under T.H. Huxley. His interest, however, faltered and in 1887 he left without a degree. He taught in private schools for four years, not getting his ... year 802701. The Time Traveler had found two people: the Eloi, weak and little, who live above ground in a seemingly Edenic paradise, and the Morlocks, bestial creatures that live below ground, who eat the Eloi. The Traveler's beautiful friend Weena is killed, he flees into the far futu...

• Word Count: 1711
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... never seen one fly, but sometimes they perch on the hand. Mist is when the sky is tired of flight and rests its soft machine on ground: Then the world is dim and bookish like engravings under tissue paper. Rain is when the earth is televison. It has the property of making colours darker. Model T is a room with the lock inside - a key ... take for granted. The non-metrical form continues its opposing theme in the second stanza "they cause the eyes to melt or the body to shriek without pain." The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" or "laugh", and he uses metap...

• Word Count: 1520
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... never seen one fly, but sometimes they perch on the hand. Mist is when the sky is tired of flight and rests its soft machine on ground: Then the world is dim and bookish like engravings under tissue paper. Rain is when the earth is televison. It has the property of making colours darker. Model T is a room with the lock inside - a key ... take for granted. The non-metrical form continues its opposing theme in the second stanza "they cause the eyes to melt or the body to shriek without pain." The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" or "laugh", and he uses metap...

• Word Count: 1520
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School