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13 A Visit of The Monster

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This extract is adapted from the science fiction novel called ‘The War of
the Worlds’, written by H.G. Wells in 1898. In this extract the narrator
describes a scene when aliens land in their spaceship on a field in England.

The sun was setting. The crowd about the
pit had increased, and stood out

black against the sky–a couple

of hundred people perhaps.
There were raised voices,

and some sort of struggle
appeared to be going on

near the pit. As I went
nearer, I heard a shout,

‘‘Keep back! Keep

back!’’
A boy came running

towards me. ‘‘It’s

a-movin’,’’ he said
to me as he passed.

‘‘I don’t like it. I’m
a-goin’ ‘ome, I am.’’

I went on into the crowd.

There were really, I should think, two or three hundred people elbowing and

jostling one another.

science fiction — stories that are based on imaginary developments in science;
about — around; jostling — pushing roughly, especially in a crowd

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