In the town he found corpses lining the streets, including the innkeeper and encountered his first Tripod.īack at his house, he met an Artilleryman and the next day they traveled on together.

Shortly after they arrived the Narrator had to go back to Woking to return the cart that he had borrowed from an innkeeper as promised. When the Fighting Machines begin to advance the Narrator runs home to get his wife to her cousins in Leatherhead. The Narrator had been anxious to know about the first cylinder because he was intrigued by it but when the second cylinder fell he was far more wary though he still believed that they couldn't overcome Earth's gravity. They open fire on the civilians with a Heat-Ray killing many including a delegation led by Ogilvy, while the others along with the narrator fled for their lives.

The Martians emerged and they were revealed to be 'at once vital, intense, inhuman, crippled and monstrous'. The narrator and other locals gathered around the crater the cylinder had made, expecting to see men much like themselves crawl out of the opening that was slowly unscrewing itself. When the Martian cylinders landed near Woking in England, an astronomer named Ogilvy went to investigate and upon finding the crash site, the news spread like wildfire. The planet Mars had grown uninhabitable and so the Martians moved to claim Earth and wipe out the human race. The War of the Worlds is an early science-fiction novel written by H.G.

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