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Name of static character: The Editor

21). In the begging and the end the Editor voices his concerns about how real time travel is during this time period and if it was even mathematically let alone scientifically possible to transport ones self. Once the Editor is finished listening to the Time Travelers story he proceeds to say “What a pity it is you’re not a writer of stories!” having not have changed his mind from the beginning of the book that the Time Travelers story is nothing but a story.

22). “The Editor raised objections. What was the time travelling? A man couldn’t cover himself with dust by rolling in a paradox, could he? And then, as the idea came home to him, he restored to a caricature. Hadn’t they any clothes-brushes …show more content…

Amid the Time Travelers recent arrival it had not taken long for a problem to arise in an unfamiliar time period. While having spent his first day in exotic future admiring everything the future had to offer the he began to head back to the original location were he had first emerged from his time travel only to find his time machine was gone. For this reason the Time Traveler fell into deep panic and became very belligerent towards the Eloi in question for what they had done with his time machine only to find out a human spider like creature known as a Morlock had taken it from him. Desperate to retrieve his time machine back he goes off looking for answers from the Morlocks he prepossess in their underworld in which the Morlock inhabit only to barley escape with his life. It is not until a few days late the location of his time machine is revealed only for it to be a trap in which the Morlocks had set up for him.

26). “And now came a most unexpected thing. As I approached the pedestal of the Sphinx I found the bronze valves were open. They had slid down into the grooves. At that I stopped short before them, hesitating to enter. Within a small apartment, and on a raised place in the corner of this was the Time Machine” (Wells …show more content…

A change I would have made to the setting would have been to keep the world more modern as it is today. I feel this would have been an interesting twist within the book to see how going 30 millions years into the future did not have much as a drastic change as the Time Traveler would have thought and it may have introduced a new theory that humanity has possibly hit the cap in how far ones brain can advance.
30). “The calm of evening was upon the world as I emerged from the great hall, and scene was lit by the warm glow of the setting sun. At first things were confusing. Everything was so entirely different from the world I had known even the flowers” (Wells 29).

Would you Recommend this book and why?
31). After having read The Time Machine by H.G. Wells I greatly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in fiction as well as time travel. This book goes into tremendous detail in depicting what life would be like in the year 802,701. Furthermore, the book leaves the leader in question on whether or not the main character had simply made the story of actually time traveling or if he had indeed traveled into the

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