The War of the Worlds: Chapter 4

CREEPY, CREEPY CHAPTER!

I wholeheartedly am enjoying H.G. Wells' super descriptive writing. I am seeing in my mind everything so vividly and clearly, especially after seeing what the Horsell Common sand pits looked like in chapter 2. I was having trouble getting the Tom Cruise movie's setting out of my mind until I saw the site that Wells was writing about in photos (see the link I shared on Chapter 2's post) and now everything he is describing is being played out in my mind's eye in that remote, natural setting.

And I'm loving it!

"It's a-movin'," he said to me as he passed - "a-screwin' and a-screwin' out. I don't like it. I'm a-goin' 'ome, I am." p. 18

𝑾𝑶𝑼𝑳𝑫 𝒀𝑶𝑼 𝑯𝑨𝑽𝑬 𝑺𝑻𝑨𝒀𝑬𝑫 𝑻𝑶 𝑺𝑬𝑬 𝑾𝑯𝑨𝑻 𝑯𝑨𝑷𝑷𝑬𝑵𝑬𝑫, 𝑶𝑹 𝑾𝑶𝑼𝑳𝑫 𝒀𝑶𝑼 𝑯𝑨𝑽𝑬 𝑮𝑶𝑵𝑬 𝑯𝑶𝑴𝑬, 𝑻𝑶𝑶?

Y'all, my heart beat a little faster for the guy that the crowd pushed into the hole as he struggled to try to climb out of it!

"A sudden chill came over me." p. 18 

"I stood petrified and staring." p. 18

Um, standing right there with you feeling the same.

What some of our members said:

"I'm torn. I would want to stay to see what happened, but everything inside me would be screaming, 'RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' Maybe I'd be at the edge of the clearing in the trees to watch from a safer distance and under cover so that I could {hopefully} avoid any possible catastrophe before it was too late? I mean, my curiosity would be insanely piqued, to say the least."

"My brain would say run, but since I was at the edge of the pit I would be glued to the scenes unfolding in front of me. Terrified, but unable to will myself to move."

"I would have wanted to stay nearby but not at the edge of the pit...with all that jostling of people, I would have fallen in! I wouldn't want to go home and miss something so I would have gone to the periphery with a ginger-beer and watched."