ENGLISH

LANGUAGE
PROJECT

BOOK REVIEW

NAME: VELAGA LALITH NARAYANA

RAO
CLASS/DIVISION:11 B
ENROLLEMENT NO: VH40-ENERO11869
 INDEX

Page 1 ACKNOLEDGMENT
Page 2 TOPIC
Page 3 ACKNOLEDGMENT
PAGE 4-7 BOOK REVIEW
Page 8 CONCLUSION

ACKNOLEDGMENT
I would like to like thank my English Language
teacher, Anurupa Mukherjee for giving her valuable
time to guide me through my project. Without her
guidance I would able to finish the project.

I would also like to thank my parent to provide me

with necessaire things needed in completion of this
project.

I would also thank my friends to guide on what I

shouldn’t make a mistake from their experience.
 TOPIC
The students need to take the key idea
from any book of their choice to write a
book review that persuades people to
check out a book they have read.
 Introduction

Book’s Name - The Time Machine

Author’s Name - H.G. Wells

Genre - Science Fiction

Language - English

About the Author

Born on 21st September, 1866, Herbert George Wells was an

English Writer. Being fluent in them all, Wells wrote in multiple
genres. He wrote a number of short stories, novels, works of social
commentary, satire, biography and auto-biography. 

He was mostly famous for his works in the genre of science fiction
which envisioned time travel, alien invasion, invisibility and
biological engineering. Some of his famous books include ‘The
Time Machine’, ‘The Invisible Man’, ‘The War of the Worlds’, ‘A
Modern Utopia’, etc. He died on the 13th of August, 1946.

About the Book

The book begins with a discussion among a group of men, that
includes the narrator about a theory that they have that involves
time being the fourth dimension. The time traveller presents a
miniature prototype of a time machine and makes it disappear
into thin air. 

The next week, the guests come again only to find the time
traveller in a dishevelled state. They sit down after dinner and the
time traveller begins to tell his story.

After having finished the work on his time machine, the time-
traveller finally sets into the future and as he pulls the lever, the
machine takes him eight hundred thousand years into the future
in the year 802,701 AD. 

He finds himself in this strange world of little humanoid creatures

who call themselves Eloi. They are peaceful creatures except for
the time they have to fight Morlocks, who are these white ape-like
creatures who prey on the Elois.

The time-traveller moves around the area for a while and enjoys
Elois' hospitality but as he decides to return, he discovers that his
time machine is gone.

He soon finds out that it has been out inside the pedestal of a
nearby statue. He tries to break in but cannot. He encounters the
Morlocks and saves an Eloi called Weena, who soon befriends
him.

The time traveller finally musters the courage to go to the

Morlocks in order to get his time machine and discovers that
matches are a good defence against the Morlocks. The fight with
the Morlocks after they chase him out of the realm is intense and
Weena is killed in battle. 

The beaten time-traveller returns to the pedestal, only to find out

that it has been broken into and just as the Morlocks have him,
the time- traveller springs onto the machine and swishes into the
future.

The time-traveller makes several stops into the future and

encounters many peculiar creatures, including giant crabs on a
beach. He travels and travels until one day when he reaches thirty
million years into the future and finds a black blob that is the only
sign of life.

He then returns to the present time, only to travel again the next
day and never return. The book has also been made into two
excellent movies. The first one came out in 1960, followed by the
other one in 2002 with the same screenplay.
 BOOK REVIEW
The Time Machine is a social doom prophecy. The future is
presented as a place where the privileged have finally gotten a
world where they can lead utterly carefree lives of leisure.
Unfortunately, the centuries of soft living have turned the rich
into weak and stupid creatures. Meanwhile, the working class has
spectated into subterranean horrors that finally seek revenge on
their former masters. This is to serve as an extrapolation of what
Wells surely saw as a widening gulf between the rich and poor in
Victorian England. Wells exaggerated the difference between the
Morlocks and Eloi to warn the well-to-do and the British
government that the social injustices of the day would prove
ruinous if not corrected. Also, Wells warns everybody that the
attainment of our ideal world, one with no pressure or work,
would probably be fatal to the human race.
The Time Machine seems to compare favourably with
mainstream literature of its day. When compared with more
modern novels, science fiction or otherwise, parts of it seem a bit
quaint and stuffy. Still, Wells was a good writer and the novel has
a sense of wonder; it’s a fine adventure tale.
On the surface, the circumstances and science sound good, but
they don’t hold up well if you know much about science. I accept
the idea of the time machine, since that particular fantasy is
central to the story, but there are a few other details that
bothered me.
First, the Time Traveller describes the land as being devoid of
fungi. The primary decomposers in an ecosystem are fungi;
without them, you can’t have a gorgeous landscape. I guess Wells
just didn’t want stinkhorns on his world.
Also, the Eloi are described as being disease-free. Perhaps science
could get rid of parasites and viruses. But you can’t kill off the
bacteria; otherwise, the whole ecosystem goes down. No
decomposition, no nitrogen fixation, no plants … no Eloi. Since
there must be bacteria, eventually you’ll have disease, since
bacteria mutate quickly and will occupy any ecological niche that
they can get started in.
The behaviour of the Morlocks rang a little false with me. They’re
intelligent enough to run the machines and lay a trap. Why didn’t
they use weapons while trying to hunt the Time Travelled down?
Chimpanzees and even crows use primitive tools. I suppose Wells
kept the Morlocks unarmed so that the hero could get away; a
party of armed Morlocks could have easily brained him.
Also, I didn’t completely believe the development of the Morlock
society. I don’t think a working class, no matter how subjugated,
could be kept down for so long. It only takes one extremely able
person to get a revolution going, and in the time frame the novel
spans I’m sure that the workers would have already rebelled
successfully.
I think Wells was accurate in showing the evolutionary changes
that could occur in several hundred thousand years’ time. The
physical changes to the Eloi were pretty good; I have read other
predictions that humans will get more androgynous and possibly
smaller if automation progresses at its current pace.
However, I doubt the extent of their mental deterioration. I think
that they would have had games and sports, and that would have
almost guaranteed that at least some of the Eloi would not have
been so small and weak. Humans love games; even in places
where there is no literacy and no ambition, you have stickball and
basketball and poker. The Eloi still had language, why not at least
some balls to throw around?
My criticisms aside, I thought the novel has held up very well.
Some of Wells’ scientific reasoning was off, but the knowledge of
the day was limited. The story is good and fast-paced, and the
descriptions are engaging. The novel lacks the literary
ammunition of other works of the same period, but it paved the
way for a whole lot of really excellent science fiction stories and
novels.
 CONCLUSION
The Time Machine has been adapted into two feature films of the
same name, as well as two television versions and many comic
book adaptations. It has also indirectly inspired many more
works of fiction in many media productions.