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The story starts explaining how the planet Mars is in the cooling stage and, so the Martians are leaving the planet. The Martians launch themselves to earth in canisters, which the humans see coming to earth. All the humans are afraid, but life continues as normal. An astronomer named Ogilvy takes note of what happened. He was the first to notice the Martians were in the “meteors” falling from mars. The Martians soon start killing humans to take the planet under control. The story changes to London where many have not heard of the news about the Martians coming to earth. Once the other people hear, they leave their homes to safety. The story flips back to the narrator where he is hiding in the pit. The person he is with, the curate starts going insane and talks loudly, so the Martians hear. They kill the other guy, but the narrator hides. He leaves the pit and soon gives up on life and wants the Martians to kill him. He walks to find the Martians, but when he reaches the peak of Primrose Hill he sees all the Martians dead in one of the pits. A bacteria humans built up immunity too killed the Martians.  1. Narrator- He is a philosopher who lives in Leatherhead. He is one of the people who first see the Martians coming. He lives through the attack, and continues his writings.  2. Curate- The curate is from Weybridge and is a sad person. He meets the narrator and won’t leave his side. He is the one that was killed by the Martians in the house.  3. Artilleryman- the narrator meets him when he lives through a Martian attack and shows up at his house. When the narrator sees him again the artilleryman has changed greatly. What happens to him after that no one knows. **__Important Quotes:__**  1. “Night, the mother of fear and mystery was coming upon me.” This quote means that night was coming and it was frightening because you never know what it can bring.  2. “By the toll f a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.” Means that men own earth and always will. Too many men have died protecting it for us to lose control of it.  3. “No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched closely and keenly by intelligence greater then mans and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.” Talking about the Martians watching man like man watches animals. It’s the opening quote and explains what the whole story will be about. **__ Analysis of Major Characters: __**  1. The narrator is the main character in the book. He is used to show how the humans reacted to the attack. He, unlike most of the humans, stayed strong and had a clear head while thinking in danger. I believe the writer used him to show how we should act in rough times. The narrator, despite going a little insane for a while, always acts smart and does the right thing.  2. I think the curate shows the exact opposite of the narrator. He shows how you shouldn’t act in rough times and never uses his head. He goes insane in the house and gets killed by the Martians. This is the narrator’s way of showing what can happen when you do not use your head. He also shows how you cannot live without religion. Once the church is destroyed, he loses his head and can no longer function right.  3. The artilleryman represents the negative side of war. He changes for the worse in the end because of the war. He can’t fight so he just gambles and drinks.
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