Monday, November 7, 2011

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The fifth chapter continues the Time Travelers story to the dinner guest, about his travel in the future. So far the Time Traveler has traveled forward in time to a time with very short meek looking creatures that all looked the same way, and lived in very large intricate buildings.
After spending the day in the future and with the creatures, the returns to the Time Machine only to find it missing. He's sure nobody traveled in time with it because he removed the ivory levers and he's also sure the creatures are too weak to move the machine. He returns to their civilization scaring the creatures and frantically asking for his time machine back. The creatures are all terrified of him, then he calms down.
The next morning he tries to deduce the whereabouts of his machine. He figures it couldn't have gone too far away from where he had it last. Since he figured it couldn't have moved far, he suspects it is in the sphinx statue he saw earlier. He tried to break open at the enterence with a rock. When he ask them how to open the pinx that reacted strongly in shock and digust. In an attemp to better understand them, he tries to learn there language and gets to know them better.
He builds a relationship with one of the creatures, name Weena. Weena is affection toward the Time Traveller, and they develop a bond as she shows in him their society.
One morning after spending the day with Weena, the Time Traveller notivces an all white ape like creature which flees quickly. He theorizes that the creature lives undergound due to the way it acted in the sunlight. From a conversation with Weena he learns that her kind is called the 'Eloi', peace loving creactures. And the what the Time Traveler saw was a 'Morlock' savage underground creatures. He tries to ask more questions but Weena because visably upset so he stops.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

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The next chapter of The Time Machine starts with the Time Traveller beginning his story in front of the dinner guest. He tells the guest about the condition of the machine and the uncomfortable conditions of time traveling and a vivid descriction of the world he saw.
He describes it as a "helpless headlong motion". He told how he was afraid of being obliterated if the the Machine hit a solid object. When he finished his decent in the future he was in the mist of a hailstorm and saw a large statue of a sphinx. Among the things he saw were robed figures, when one of the creatures approached him reminded him of a man suffering from tubecurlosis.
He examines the new world and sees that there's no distiction of gender or age amost them. The buildings surruonding the Time Traveller are large and very intricate and strike him with fear. The chapters continue on with the Time Traveller's story.

Friday, October 7, 2011

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My book is the The Time Machine by H.G. Wells. This book fits in with the Science fiction genre as does most sotries by Wells.The Time Machine is a book about a man in Richmond who takes his dinner guest time traveling .
The story starts in the time travelers house with his guest discussing his Time Machine and how it works. The perspective starts out from the view of a guest at the dinner. The Narrator listens to the Time Traveler explain how the machine works in a lenghty diffusion of the 4th dimension. Everyone at first seem skeptical of him, and question his machine. He then activate the time machine, which is about the size of a clock from the times, and the people are shocked as it disappears,.
The next day dinner guest arrive and our instructed to start without their host. He arrives at the party looking very worn out and the narrator suggest to the other guest he has been time travailing. They all are skeptic of him, until he begins to explain his story which begins in the next chapter.