waroftheworlds


 * THE WAR OF WORLDS-BY: H.G WELLS Brandon Chiger, Eric Kasper, Patrick McLoughlin, and Stephen Fastow.[[image:WOTW_banner_tcm167-166869.jpg width="782" height="290" caption="World Domination"]]

Week One:** Pgs. 1-60

QUESTIONS: 1. Explain the setting of the beginning of the book. 2. Who are the known characters so far? 3. What part of the reading was the most interesting? 4. What comes out of the meteorite? 5. Predict what will happen next.
 * The story takes place in England during the late 1800's.**
 * The Narrator who is a journalist, and Ogilvy.**
 * The crashing of the meteorite.**
 * Men trying to escape.**
 * The escaping men will attack everybody on Earth and cause a massive world war.

SUMMARY: So far, this has been a pretty interesting book. If you like war and world domination, this is the book for you. Our favorite quality about the book so far is that it reminds us of I Robot, because it is about a species trying to take over the human race. This book is packed with details and information. When this book was placed on the "greatest novels of all time," we clearly know why. So far, this book club has been going by smoothly. **


 * Week Two:** Pgs. 60-120

QUESTIONS: 1. What story element does this book most closely relate to? 2. What country is this taking place in? England.** 3. What happens after the meteorite crashes? 4. What do the creatures do? They attack the Earth and destroy everything in sight.** 5. Name three traits that the narrator sees when he looks out the window.
 * Suspense and Action.
 * A second meteorite hits.
 * Fire, Creatures running, crashed automobiles.

SUMMARY: This week has been boring, because Stephen and Eric were absent. That leaves Brandon and Patrick as the only club members present. As we continue reading, it just keeps getting more and more exciting. We found out that the narrator's wife had no CLUE that the world domination was even happening. This book continues to please us and keep us interested. The best part about this book is the idea of the aliens attacking everybody on Earth and taking over. It reminds us of 2012, only in a book! This meeting has been boring yet fun. Boring because Fastow and Kasper are absent, yet fun because we can finally get our work done! (only kidding) **


 * Week Three:** Pgs. 120-180

QUESTIONS: 1. Are the martians getting stronger as they spend more time on Earth? 2. Does the human army stand any chance of resisting the martian invasion? 3. Do you think the artillery man's futuristic ideas of fighting will work against the martians? 4. Do the martians seem unstoppable? 5. If you could best define a genre for this book, what would it be?
 * Yes because their machines are ripping through everything in sight and they are beginning to become more familiar with their environment.**
 * No because the martian fleet is equipped with future weapons, beyond the power of the weapons our troops have. For example, it would be like comparing a WWII weapon to a present-day Iraq war weapon.**
 * Yes and No, because the martians will have no idea that they are hiding in the sewers, and they will then pop up and shoot. They won't know what hit them. If the martians catch on to their plan, then they will ambush the sewers and they will have NOWHERE to run.**
 * Yes because the martians have shields and superior heat waves which deflect NEARLY all human gunfire. Their tanks and machines are far superior to the humans, therefore, they seem UNSTOPPABLE.**
 * Action/Adventure, Historical Fantasy.

SUMMARY:** We spent most of today's meeting discussing the mood and tone of our book. This book is filled with action and keeps the reader on track throughout. However, the story is told from a narrator, which slows the mood down as opposed to straight out dialogued story. If this book could be defined with colors, it would be brown, red, yellow, and orange. The brown represents the thousands of miles of ripped up, dirt from the destruction of the martians. The red, yellow, and orange are from the raging fires throughout towns and cities as a result of the destructive tanks and machines attacking. So far, we love this book. Everybody in our group loves shooting and destructive video games, therefore, this book is a perfect match for us. We can HARDLY wait to read the next 60 pages. So join us next week for pages 180-240. (coming to a theater near you)


 * Week Four:** Pgs. 180-240

1. What are the martian machines like? 2. Is it possible to bring down the machines? Yes, a few of them were shot down by artillery and fell into the water and were destroyed. 3. Are more Martian reinforcements on the way? Yes, every night another cylinder falls to earth. 4. What is the black smoke? It is a dense, poisonous gas that kills anything that it touches. 5. How do you escape the black smoke? You have to climb to an area above the smoke. This week we all had a lot of discussions about the book, including how the aliens used black smoke to kill the humans. Which is a poisonous gas that kills everything it touches.
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 * They are like daddy long leg spiders that spit fire and attacks everything in its path. It has a metal head on top of a tripod with two long dangling arms that hold a box filled with "fire," ready to fire.**
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1. How did the curate die? The curate was killed when he got so hungry that he began to walk out of the hiding spot while the Martians were looming nearby so the main character decides that he has to kill him instead of letting the curate give up the hiding spot. 2. How were the Martians officially defeated? The Martians were killed by the common cold which their immune systems could not fight. 3. What was the cordlike thing that crawled into his hiding spot? The cordlike thing was a camera to find any humans hiding in the nearby houses to get rid of the humans. 4. How many days did he go without eating? 15 days because the Martians were looming outside. 5. How was the house he hid in destroyed? One of the Martian cylinders crash landed on it. This week Brandon wasn't here but the rest of us had good discussions about the book, and all of us think that this book shouldn't be read in school, because it was boring at parts and its really old. Most of our discussions was about how the martians were defeated. It did not seem like any one of us really enjoyed the book. It was evident because there were no intense or lasting conversations and all of the previous meetings we had rushed through our meetings. All the meetings did go smoothly and there were no true complaints. I did not dislike the book but it was not great. Overall I would not recommend this book to a kid or young adult. It is just too difficult and slow. It takes H.G. Wells like 10 pages for the main character to run one block.
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