When you think of an alien invasion, you might get the thought of slimy green aliens that speak weirdly and want to destroy us. This is usually how most movies, books and other media depict it. The graphic adaptation of “Zero Hour” by Ray Bradbury, and an excerpt from The War Of The World's, both about alien invasions and we found that they had some similarities and differences on how life on Earth would occur during an alien invasion. Both authors portray life on Earth during an alien invasion as unexpected and hectic. However, in Ray Bradbury’s “Zero Hour”, he showed that aliens would manipulate children and take the humans by shock. On the other hand, H.G Wells’ The War of the World's conveys it as a war against the aliens and the humans, …show more content…
not as a partnership. “Zero Hour” by Ray Bradbury has a different perspective from HG Wells’ War of the World's.
“Zero Hour” shows how aliens take the humans by surprise by using the children for their own benefit. The main character, Mink, tells her mom about how the aliens wanted to use children because they believe in aliens, Mink says “Until, one day, they thought of children and they thought of how grown ups are so busy, they never look.” (pg 251, Bradbury). But the mom believes it is just a silly game since they are just kids. When Mink’s mom is talking to Helen; who is in another state and her kids are also playing the same game, and other kids nationwide are also, she becomes suspicious. They all talk about a guy named Drill, and in the story we hear Mink saying that Drill is a martian. This is saying how this martian Drill is trying to “make a good fight” (pg 250, Bradbury) and he is going to do this by manipulating the children and taking the Earth by …show more content…
surprise. The War of the Worlds has a more realistic setting and H.G Wells makes it sound like the Aliens are asking for a war. The characters don’t try to help each other instead it seems like they only care about themselves. “A man, too frightened to drop the portmanteau he carried on his shoulder, swung round and sent me staggering with a blow from the corner of his burden. (pg 269, Wells).” This shows, while the narrator is standing there, everyone around him is trying to survive on their own and don't care about the others. A woman thrust at me with her hand and rushed past me.” Everyone seems to be in their own little world and careless of anyone around them. The events in The War of the Worlds are different, instead of having a storyline behind the alien attack, the aliens just appear. A similarity is that both authors showed that the Aliens would take the humans on earth by surprise.
In both stories, the humans did not expect an Alien invasion and seemed to be at a state of panic to protect themselves from getting hurt. In both stories, the aliens seem to be harmful towards the humans as well. In The War of the Worlds, the Martians appear out of the blue, “Everyone stood arrested by the sudden stir of battle, near us” (pg 267, Wells). In the quiet and restful town, no one expects or sees a battle coming, and, therefore, this makes it a surprise. A similar event happens in “Zero Hour” when they hear a buzzing sound coming from outside they grew skeptical and out of nowhere “The explosion!” and “There were other explosions in other yards and other streets” (pg 257, Bradbury). So all at once, the invasion starts and people are startled because they did not expect that. In both, the Martians or aliens are intentionally hurting the people. Mink in “Zero Hour”, mentions how Drill the alien wants to “figure a way to attack” (pg 250, Bradbury). In The War of the Worlds, the aliens also are fighting and attacking, the “Heat- Ray hit the water, the latter had immediately flashed into steam”, the aliens are even using heat rays to attack, and scare the
humans. Although the stories have similar topics and ideas, there are also many differences. The authors have their own visions of an alien invasion that they build using character and events. In The War of the Worlds, the story is based on a battle between the humans and aliens, where the humans are ignorant of each other. In “Zero Hour”, the aliens use children to attack and surprise the Earth. But despite the difference, both stories show the panic on Earth and how the aliens or Martians would surprise the humans, and it would be unexpected. The aliens also want to attack and harm the humans in both stories. Both stories provided an insight to what an alien invasion on Earth might be like, We humans are afraid of the unknown and that is something we were able to experience through reading these texts. Now imagine if an alien invasion were to actually occur!
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bystanders and blow craters in the sidewalk. Just when the two are about to be
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