THE WAR OF THE WORLDS by Constanza Genoa https://padlet.com/constanzagenoa/3c9mtwu9nwhd5cfq Constanza Genoa y Mora Gagliote en-us 2022-05-26 20:24:21 UTC 2022-06-02 04:16:03 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4d6.png constanzagenoa https://padlet.com/constanzagenoa/3c9mtwu9nwhd5cfq/wish/2201341013 The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells in 1898]]> 2022-05-26 20:47:50 UTC https://padlet.com/constanzagenoa/3c9mtwu9nwhd5cfq/wish/2201341013 Who was Wells? constanzagenoa https://padlet.com/constanzagenoa/3c9mtwu9nwhd5cfq/wish/2201350280 Wells was an English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian. Wells was born into a working class British family, the youngest of four children.
With help he could study biology in a universty with Thomas Henry Huxley]]> 2022-05-26 21:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/constanzagenoa/3c9mtwu9nwhd5cfq/wish/2201350280 What is this book about? constanzagenoa https://padlet.com/constanzagenoa/3c9mtwu9nwhd5cfq/wish/2201363958 2022-05-26 21:21:41 UTC https://padlet.com/constanzagenoa/3c9mtwu9nwhd5cfq/wish/2201363958 Thomas Henry Huxley constanzagenoa https://padlet.com/constanzagenoa/3c9mtwu9nwhd5cfq/wish/2206610438 Huxley was a passionate proponent of Darwin’s theory of natural selection, wich figures prominently in The War of the Worlds]]> 2022-05-31 20:21:07 UTC https://padlet.com/constanzagenoa/3c9mtwu9nwhd5cfq/wish/2206610438 More about Walles constanzagenoa https://padlet.com/constanzagenoa/3c9mtwu9nwhd5cfq/wish/2206612320 By the end of his time at university, he was beginning to see writing as his main occupation. 
Wells formulated a romantic conception of the subject that would inspire the inventive and influential science-fiction and fantasy novels.
Wells was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times, and is widely known as one of the “fathers of science fiction.”
]]> 2022-05-31 20:23:29 UTC https://padlet.com/constanzagenoa/3c9mtwu9nwhd5cfq/wish/2206612320 Why this book belongs to the High Modernism? constanzagenoa https://padlet.com/constanzagenoa/3c9mtwu9nwhd5cfq/wish/2206643687 2022-05-31 20:58:53 UTC https://padlet.com/constanzagenoa/3c9mtwu9nwhd5cfq/wish/2206643687 constanzagenoa https://padlet.com/constanzagenoa/3c9mtwu9nwhd5cfq/wish/2206648733 Also it's a statement against colonialism and the idea of Social Darwinism. But it's much more ambiguous about things like religion and the role of the military.
War of the Worlds is a novel of big ideas that forces the reader to reconsider how they think about the world they live in.]]> 2022-05-31 21:05:52 UTC https://padlet.com/constanzagenoa/3c9mtwu9nwhd5cfq/wish/2206648733 Why this book belongs to the High Modernisim? moragagliote https://padlet.com/constanzagenoa/3c9mtwu9nwhd5cfq/wish/2208419611 it was one of the first stories to describe a fight between humans and aliens. putting the aliens in symbol of the unknown. It was a great message for society that was "afraid" of unknown species as there was a lot and xenophobia, because of the uncontrollable fear they had of invaders and foreigners in England at the time. In the High Modernisims the writers reflected the state of society during and after the war war l]]> 2022-06-02 04:15:22 UTC https://padlet.com/constanzagenoa/3c9mtwu9nwhd5cfq/wish/2208419611