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“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change,” H.G Wells.This quote is a perfect way to grasp the book. In this book, we get to see the major differences and groups of the future. We have this group of socially challenged workers vs the fun, loving souls of the Eloi. Throughout the story, I got a sense of social groups that translate through high school. For instance, the jocks vs. nerds, goody two shoes vs. stoners and some much more are social standards that many high schools have. I see that a lot in this book, the fun loving Elio vs. the dark brooding members of the Morlocks, the book describes that we have no idea what life is gonna be but it is not going to be what we believe.

“He struck me as being a very beautiful and graceful creature but indescribably frail,”(23) that's how to time traveler describes them when he first meets them.That statement reminds me of the “popular girls” you always see in movies and tv shows. They always seem to be pretty, fragile, and dumb. “What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigor? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker go to the wall.”(32)The Eloi are very pretty but dumb creatures, who just dance and sing all the time.Which reminds me of a child, the author even says they have a “childlike ease”(24). There is no intelligence shown, the only thing I really think of them having any is knowing not to go outside at night because that is when the Morlock hunt. The merlot is fattening them up to eat, they hunt them like mankind hunts deer or