The War Of The Worlds by https://padlet.com/buzzald/v4m1iw4g95dhbmi4 H. G. Wells en-us 2020-05-13 02:19:18 UTC 2025-02-02 02:14:35 UTC hello@padlet.com VOCABULARY buzzald https://padlet.com/buzzald/v4m1iw4g95dhbmi4/wish/569035353 The War of the Worlds conjures a terrifying, tentacled race of Martians who devastate the Earth and feed on their human victims while their voracious vegetation, the red weed, spreads over the ruined planet.]]> 2020-05-13 02:41:02 UTC https://padlet.com/buzzald/v4m1iw4g95dhbmi4/wish/569035353 SETTING buzzald https://padlet.com/buzzald/v4m1iw4g95dhbmi4/wish/588218704 The War of the Worlds is set in the late 1890s in England. For Wells and his original audience, this was a modern setting, and the British weapons he describes were the very latest products of high technology.]]> 2020-05-22 02:29:14 UTC https://padlet.com/buzzald/v4m1iw4g95dhbmi4/wish/588218704 AUTHOR buzzald https://padlet.com/buzzald/v4m1iw4g95dhbmi4/wish/588219597 Herbert George Wells was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games]]> 2020-05-22 02:30:15 UTC https://padlet.com/buzzald/v4m1iw4g95dhbmi4/wish/588219597 CHARACTER buzzald https://padlet.com/buzzald/v4m1iw4g95dhbmi4/wish/610102460 The Narrator
The novel is told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator who is a philosopher and a hobbyist astronomer. He is also one of the first to notice some oddities occurring on the Martian landscape and to infer that the Martians are indeed launching an invasion.

Martians
An aggressive, merciless, and technologically advanced alien species trying to flee their dying planet.

]]> 2020-06-04 02:38:47 UTC https://padlet.com/buzzald/v4m1iw4g95dhbmi4/wish/610102460 COVER buzzald https://padlet.com/buzzald/v4m1iw4g95dhbmi4/wish/610103572 2020-06-04 02:40:06 UTC https://padlet.com/buzzald/v4m1iw4g95dhbmi4/wish/610103572 COVER buzzald https://padlet.com/buzzald/v4m1iw4g95dhbmi4/wish/610106264 2020-06-04 02:43:30 UTC https://padlet.com/buzzald/v4m1iw4g95dhbmi4/wish/610106264 COVER buzzald https://padlet.com/buzzald/v4m1iw4g95dhbmi4/wish/610107005 2020-06-04 02:44:24 UTC https://padlet.com/buzzald/v4m1iw4g95dhbmi4/wish/610107005 PLOT buzzald https://padlet.com/buzzald/v4m1iw4g95dhbmi4/wish/638189729 Dockworker Ray Terrier (Tom Cruise) struggles to build a positive relationship with his two children, Rachel (Dakota Fanning) and Robbie (Justin Chatwin). When his ex-wife, Mary Ann (Miranda Otto), drops them off at Ferrier's house, it seems as though it will be just another tension-filled weekend. However, when electromagnetic pulses of lightning strike the area, the strange event turns out to be the beginning of an alien invasion, and Ferrier must now protect his children as they seek refuge.]]> 2020-06-24 02:38:32 UTC https://padlet.com/buzzald/v4m1iw4g95dhbmi4/wish/638189729