Bebby Syafitrie Kusuma Wardani (03) XI ACCELERATION

Outer Space Invention

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Title

The War of The Worlds

Author

Chris Sasaki

Illustrated by Jamel Akib

Edition

Illustrated

Publisher

Sterling Publishing, 2007

ISBN

978-1-4027-3688-9

Pages

150 pages

Chris Sasaki is a published author and an editor of children's books and young
adult books. Some of the published credits of Chris Sasaki include Classic Starts: The
Time Machine (Classic Starts Series), Classic Starts: The War of the Worlds (Classic
Starts Series), Constellations: A Glow-in-the-Dark Guide to the Night Sky, and Classic
Starts: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Classic Starts Series).
I am Bebby Syafitrie Kusuma Wardani, one of the students of SMAN 8 Jakarta
would like to make a review of a book about "The War of The Worlds", one of the H.G
Wells book that retold by Chris Sasaki. I am going to make a book review about "The
War of The Worlds" to fulfill my assignment given by Mrs. Desi P.
This book tells us about The planet Mars that turned out to have a longer life than
Earth. They are trying to destroy the human race on earth.
When the Martians shot themselves off their planet in cylinders towards earth,
landing near a town in England, an astronomer saw the strange shooting light in the sky
and went in the direction of where the cylinder seemed to have landed, hoping to find it.
When he found the crash site, the news soon spread. A crowd started to gather around the
crater the cylinder had made, expecting to see men much like themselves crawl out of the
opening that was slowly unscrewing itself. The Martians emerged and their appearance
was like anything but men, with their head-like bodies and many tentacles. They had a
weapon that shot heat-rays, setting aflame anything in its path. Many people were shot by
it, while the others ran to save themselves
The Narrator ran back home and told his wife everything that had happened. He
realized that it was no longer safe for them there. The next day they packed up and
headed to Leatherhead where his wife's cousins were. Shortly after they arrived the
narrator had to go back to return a cart that he had borrowed from an innkeeper and had

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promised to return. In the town he found dead bodies along the streets including the
innkeepers. He encountered a big metal machine on a tall tripod with a Martian inside
controlling it.
Back at his house, he met an artilleryman and the next day they traveled on
together. After many hours walking down the road they came to a town. As they were
walking through the Martians made an attack. The narrator jumped into the river out of
sight of the martians and out of reach of the Heat-Ray. Military guns shot at a Martian,
destroying it. It fell into the river, causing the water to boil, and burning the narrator. He
was able to escape to a boat and down the river. Further down he landed exhausted on
shore. After resting he found a curate from the church of the nearby town who was
confused by all the destruction and started to follow the narrator around.
By that time the Martians had started to destroy London where the narrator's
brother lived. That was when the Martians had changed their weapon from the Heat-Ray
to the Black Smoke that they spread across the land. Luckily the narrator's brother had
escaped in time before they spread it through the streets of London.
The narrator and the curate had broken into an abandoned house to get food when
the fifth cylinder landed right next to them, destroying part of the house and trapping
them inside. For many weeks they stayed in the house during which the curate's death
was caused by his loud talking that attracted the attention of a Martian. Eventually the
narrator realized that no more Martians were in sight. It was finally safe to come out. He
walked on down the road towards Leatherhead hoping his wife was still alive.
Everywhere, the trees, the ground, were covered in a red weed from Mars. He felt
like he was walking through a different world. When his walking, the narrator met the
artillery man again. They stayed together for a few days but the narrator wanted to see
London so he left the artillery man and went alone.
In London he wandered the destroyed and deserted streets. There he found a pit
the Martians had created, where the Martians were all lying dead. They had died from the
bacteria on the earth that humans had become immune to.
When the narrator returned to his home, believing his wife to be among the dead,
he found her there and the two were reunited. Miracle came, the war was over and soon
England was returned back to normal. Now and then the narrator was still haunted by the
past and knew that the world should be prepared for the possibility of the Martians return.
This book has made the movie and I think the movie and the book has many
differences from the place background until the alien forms described by novel different
from those in the movie