War of the Worlds

The narrative of The War of the World’s is quite dramatic. There is always plenty of action and the surroundings are always being described. When reading the book one would find that it was written in 1898, over one hundred years ago. The technology from that day was very different in comparison to what we have today. Yet H.G. Wells manages to generate ideas of things, which have never been seen in today’s advancing technological world. Orson Welles had the novel written into play form. He acted it out on the radio and it scared many people. His play was not exactly like the novel because he made it seem real. Many people were panicked because he made it seem so real.
In H.G. Wells’ work the story starts off with Ogilvy (a survivor) telling us that human affairs had been watched keenly and closely by intelligence’s greater than man’s does. Ogilvy was a key character in which he had spotted the Martian coming into Woking, which was the setting from which the aliens...