BOOK Chapter
Chapter 1, The Eve of War
Chapter 2, The falling Star
Chapter 3, On Horsell Common
Chapter 4, The Cylinder Opens
Chapter 5, The Heat-Ray
Chapter 6, The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road
BOOK 1
Chapter 7, How I Reached Home
BOOK 1
Chapter 8, Friday Night
Chapter 9, The Fighting Begins
Chapter 10, In the Storm
Chapter 11, At the Window
Chapter 12, What I Saw of the Destruction Of Weybridge and Shepperton
Chapter 13, How I fell in with the Curate
Chapter 14, In London
Chapter 15, What had happened in Surrey
Chapter 16, The Exodus from London
Chapter 17, The Thunder Child
Setting/ Location Plot
The narrator describes Earth in the earth 20th century.
During the last few years, Earth was being watched
closely by higher inteligence on Mars. Humans were
unaware and dismissive of the idea of life on Mars. Since
Mars is smaller than Earth the supplies where running out.
The narrator and Ogilvy see the venting of gases to the
atmosphere through a microscope.
A falling star is seen over Winchester. Ogilvy find the hot,
large, metal cylinder with a rotating end. Ogilvy connects
it to the recent on Mars, suspecting It contains living
beings, but his warnings are dismissed. With the journalist
Henderson, he revisits the site and telegraphs the news.
Winchester, the After reading the event, the narrator returns to the site.
site of the
cylinder.
At the crash site, a small crowd formed, and the end of
the cylinder has stopped rotating. The Narrator suspects
it contains information from Mars rather than living being
and he returns home. The evening papers reports the
scene that prompts him to return to the site, where
Henderson and Ogilvy attempt to unearth the cylinder.
Ogilvy asks The Narrator to contacct lord Hilton,
property owner to remove the people on the site. The
narrator goes to the train and heads to meet him.
The Narrator return to the site by sunset, to find people
at the site. He forces his way through the crows as Ogilvy
shouts warning about the unkown. The cylinder's end
twists off, revealing the interior, Gray tentacles emerge
from the cylinder followed by a rounded, bearsized bulk.
The martian moves slower due to earths gravity. He
describes the martians horrific appearence: V-shaped
mouth, large eyes, rounded bodies, mass of tentacles.
The narrator goes to a near tree to observe and observe
the crowd disperse.
Key Quotations.
"So vain is man, yet so blinded by its
vanity"
