iction novel by H.G
lls. It originally appeared in serial form in magazines in
97 and was
later published as a book. It tells the story of
gland being invaded by Martians
from The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
o one would have believed in the last years
of the nineteenth century that this world was
being watched keenly and closely by
intelligences greater than man's and yet as
mortal as his own; that as men busied
themselves about their various concerns they
"were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost
as narrowly as a man with a microscope
might scrutinise the transient creatures that
swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
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page 4.
What does the figurative language in this
sentence suggest about the narrator?
He sympathizes with people for not apprehending
that there was advanced life on other planets.
He is unable to believe that there could be any
form of life more advanced than humans.
He feels that people should have used better tools
to help them detect advanced life forms on other
planets.
He blames people's exaggerated idea of their
superiority for their failure to imagine life more
advanced than themselves.