Friday, May 9, 2014

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells is about a man known as "The Time Traveler" who builds a time machine and travels into the future. He travels into the year of 802,701 AD. During his travel to the future he meets a race of people called the Eloi. The Eloi are asexual and very, very indolent. The Eloi always eat fruit and play. They also do everything together they never really and place and never leave one another. The other kind of people called the Morlock live underground. The Morlock and Eloi don’t exactly like each other. The Morlock are the opposite they are rarely seen in the day time but they are always out at night. Later the Eloi enslave the Morlock so that they will make them clothes and shoes. The Morlock live under ground in a city and the Eloi live up on the land. The place where the Morlock live probably represents hell and up where the Eloi live probably represents heaven.  The time traveler comes back from this time and place and tells his friends about it. He later goes off again in his time machine and never returns. The Time Travelers first impression of the Eloi is that they live in a communist society. The Eloi are always seen frolicking and playing during the day.   They are very lazy and do not work at all. They eat fruit so that they do not have to hunt.  There are no signs of aggressive behavior.  Each Eloi is of the same status. They all slept in the same area called the Great Hall. Parts of the community where falling apart and broken because the Eloi became so week, frail and lazy the society didn’t advance. He realizes that the Eloi have clothes and shoes and determines that somebody has to be making these goods because the Eloi don’t work. Then he comes to the conclusion that the Eloi have enslaved the Morlock. For payback of this the Morlock start eating the Eloi. Even though the Time Traveler went 802,000 years into the future there were still conflicts between the human races.

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