The Time Machine – Final Discussion
THE FINAL DISCUSSION IN TIME
If your class has not finished reading The Time Machine in class, then your homework is as follows:
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Finish reading the book online (or use the book you borrowed from me and never returned, grrrrr!)
Now you can bring closure to this amazing literature experience. Accomplish this:
- Answer the following questions on your own paper. (DUE MONDAY WHEN YOU WALK IN)
- Post one of these answers to THIS blog, and respond to other’s answers. (DUE BY TUESDAY 12:00AM)
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Chapter X
- What does the Time Traveller conclude about mankind’s intellectual advancements? Use details and information from the chapter to support your answer.
Chapter XI
- Why does the Time Traveller decide to visit the end of the Earth? Use details and information from the chapter to support your answer.
Chapter XII
- Why do you think that Wells doesn’t tell you what happened to the Time Traveller in the end?
Ultimately – This is what it’s all about.
PICK ONE OF THESE TO ANSWER
- What, if anything, can we learn from the novel and apply today?
- Why did Wells write the book?
- The Time Traveller concludes that humans developed into Eloi and Morlocks because they sought to do what was easy; they had most of their needs met; their conflicts were eliminated. Why is the elimination of conflict and need negative?
- How does the Time Traveller feel about the idea expressed in the following nursery rhyme? Refer to Chapter 12 for help.
Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily merrily; life is but a dream.
For question number 1.
I think that humans are altering nature to the extremes.This altering is causing humans to set up their own destruction.They do not want to allow their environment to provide for them while it can.Instead, humans rush the growth process of some of our fruits and vegitables and try to make it fit their specific want.One example is; someone does not like regular grapes with seeds, so they change grapes to seedless.Even architecture has advanced to that point also.Basically, what I have gathered about this topic from this book is, that people alter nature to full-fill their needs, but what they are really doing is creating thier path to destruction.
question : Why is the elimination of conflict and need negative?
answer: The elimintation of conflict and need is negative because then it would cause no need for communication. No need for an education,THe eloi were not advanced at all. we would lack the motivation needed to learn, or work.The eloi were simple creatures. They played, ate, slept among other thigns but they mostly just simply lived. The negative thing about that is that the eloi had absolutely no knowledge of anything else besides that, thier lives were pretty much nothing but living like animals, without a cause.I dont know about you but i would want at least a reason to live not just live day by day in fear of the morlocks, with no real goal.
Sabrina,
I have a little something else to add to what Basmatee said. When the question says :The end of the Earth”, its basically sarcasim. They don’t actually mean the end of the Earth. They mean further along they they were; closer to the end then they were before. It doesn’t actually say the “end of the earth” in the book.Hope I helped you!
chapter 12: wells didnt tell you what happened to the time traveler to leave you hanging…. add a bit more mystery to the story and leave you thinking.
2. Wells wrote this book to show readers that the world is not going to stay the same. People might look different or all animals may go extinct. Only time can tell. Or he could have written this book to tell his perspective on how the future may be in the future.
question 1.What, if anything, can we learn from the novel and apply today? we can learn man has a brother and we shold not cast that brother in to the darkness.Because soon that brother will come back as did the morlocks and seek their revenge.The eloi shoved the morlocks in to the darkness and as a reslut the morlocks breed the eloi and eat them as if their were some kind of cattle.In this case the eloi is man and the morlocks are man’s brother the eloi negelted their needs and as the result man’s brother or the morlocks gave the eloi their needs like shelter,Clothes,and food and in return the eloi provide the morlocks with food which is them.If any thing we can learn from this book is that man should care and love hie brother and cast them aside in to darkness.
3. The elimination of conflict and need is negative because when u take conflict out of your life theres nothing to fight for or care about. The Eloi’s dont care about anything any more. People can die and they wont care. When you take need out of life theres basicly nothing to live for.
question 1.What, if anything, can we learn from the novel and apply today?
What, if anything, can we learn from the novel and apply today?
That we need to take care of the environment and watch what we do to the earth because everything has consequences. Like global warmimg a big consequence we are taking here in the world.
Does anyone know where (which chapter) it says why the time traveller visited the end of the earth?
Kristin think about how he was after he told the story.
Chapter X
1. What does the Time Traveller conclude about mankind’s intellectual advancements? Use details and information from the chapter to support your answer.
The time traveler concludes that mankind had made more needs for itself. Because humanity doesn’t really need most of the things that humanity has. If humanity was in balance with its environment life would be perfect. There wouldn’t be any questions about what will happen next after something horrible had happened. The Time Traveller states…
“I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide. It had set itself steadfastly towards comfort and ease, a balanced society with security and permanency as its watchword; it had attained its hopes–to come to this at last. Once, life and property must have reached almost absolute safety. The rich had been assured of his wealth and comfort, the toiler assured of his life and work. No doubt in that perfect world there had been no unemployed problem, no social question left unsolved. And a great quiet had followed.
`It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that has to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers.” (Chapter 10, the Time Machine)
lindsey I think the question means what is the main point of the book.Not how it captures the reader.
I posted one of the wrong questions so here’s the right one.
I think wells wrote this book to showw us the path that we are heading will eventually lead to us being nothing but weak unintelligent beings.
And having no needs,animals will be extinct from the face of the earth just like in the book.There was no animals and it says in chapter 4
that there was no need for an eeficient family.
The Time Traveler concludes that humans developed into Eloi and Morlocks because they sought to do what was easy; they had most of their needs met; their conflicts were eliminated. Why is the elimination of conflict and need negative?
Because without conflict and need man will require not worry or fear or to think critically. Without these grave things man will digress as seen in the morlocks and eloi. They no not why or what they are here for they just live, breath, eat and sleep which leaves room for nothing at all beyond simplicity.
i think that wells wrote this book mainly to entertain it’s reader’s this book definately get’s you thinking about things that never occupied your mind before (( eloi.morlocks,time machine)) all these things racing through your mind all at once this book i think was pretty good,definately better that “REBEL” book. it kept you hooked and wanting more! which is exactly what book that is supposed to entertain you should do (( entertain[dah] keep you wanting more, and make you think)) sorry for not posting to this blog sooner my computer was down and i couldnt get on to the internet please forgive me !! congrats mr.moshe once again on your new baby’s arrival!!
What, if anything, can we learn from the novel and apply today?
I think the main thing we can learn from the book is that humans are bound to be their own destruction. We are so bent on making life as easy as we can right now that we fail to consider the outcome in the future, distant or not. If all animals go extinct, there will be no fault on anything but us.I also think that if we try to eliminate all the danger and difficulty in the world, we will end up like the Eloi, because we are only intelligent because we need the mind power to deal with troubles. Basically, if you take away all things worth thinking about, you will stop thinking, right? Same concept.
For this question…
4. How does the Time Traveller feel about the idea expressed in the following nursurey rhyme? Refer to Chapter 12 for help.
Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily merrily; life is but a dream.
..what are we supposed to be answering? I don’t understand
Question: The Time Traveller concludes that humans developed into Eloi and Morlocks because they sought to do what was easy; they had most of their needs met; their conflicts were eliminated. Why is the elimination of conflict and need negative?
Answer: The elimination of conflict and need is negative because our lives would be pointless. Our whole lives are based around conflict and need. For example, we always have conflicts. From the time we were born, we’re faced with problems. If all this was eliminated, our lives would be pointless, much like the Eloi.
This is my answer for chapter 12 question.
Wells does not say what happens to the time traveler simply to challenge the reader to think of where he might be.He might have gone back in time,but then again if he did they probably would have found his body fossilize in the present and things in the present would be different.Or he might have went to the future to change the evolution of humanity so that what we become have some intelligence,but why would he want to go back to a future where he could be food for Morlocks before changing anything.Wherever he is,it seems that he can do nothing.Granted,he might have gone to when the world was ending but no one knows except for Wells himself.
Q: Why did Wells write the book?
A: I think Wells wrote The Time Traveller to give us an idea of what the world may be like in the future if we continue as we are going now.In his version of the future,there are no animals,only vegatation.This leads us to believe that all of the animals died out.
Chris, was wells a scientist or just an author?
Umm, refering to the quote Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily merrily; life is but a dream, at the end of the story didnt the time traveller say he felt as if he was loosing his memory and qustioned if it was real or not.
“They were put into my pocket by Weena, when I travelled into Time.’ He stared round the room. `I’m damned if it isn’t all going. This room and you and the atmosphere of every day is too much for my memory. Did I ever make a Time Machine, or a model of a Time Machine? Or is it all only a dream? They say life is a dream, a precious poor dream at times–but I can’t stand another that won’t fit. It’s madness. And where did the dream come from? . . . I must look at that machine. If there is one.”
That is what he had said in the last chapter.
I agree with Ashlyn.
I didnt even read yours when i wrote mine but our answers sound the same.
I was thinking the same way you were.
I do agree with Neha. I think the author wanted to raise a feeling of curiosity on the subject of “what happend to the time-traveller”.A question, we may never know the answer to unless Wells comes back to life or something, which i doubt highly.I wonder where the time traveller is.
I think Connie’s opinion is different but a good way of looking at the way he wrote. I was thinking the same thing you were.
1.Why did Wells write the book?
I think wells wrote the book to inform us that if the human race wants to be perfect then it must be in harmony with its enviornment. The time-traveller said,
“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers.”
This means humans create new needs for themself. The only things we really need is what is found in nature. If the human race could stop creating these needs,and manage without them, the world would be perfectly balanced between nature and humans. I really think that is one of the main messages he is trying to portray in the story.
MR. MOSHE YOUR CLOCK IS AN HOUR AHEAD
I didn’t know which questions to do or post. So I did both.
Can someone please tell me which one we are supposed to do
Q. How does the Time Traveller feel about the idea expressed in the following nursurey rhyme? Refer to Chapter 12 for help.
Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily merrily; life is but a dream.
A. He probably thinks that every thing he did was probably a dream because “life is but a dream” means that life is nothing but just a dream. So he is questioning himself did I really go back in time.
Yes,I agree with Gabrielle W. with that Wells doesn’t tell the reader what happens to The Time Travler to leave us guessing,because I think he wanted to leave the reader on a cliff hanger.It also,adds suspense to the book.
Q:Why did Wells write the book?
A:I think Wells wrote The Time Machine to give us an outlook and inform us on what the world could be like if we continue with our ways.For example,The Time Traveler stated that when he traveled to the future he saw nothing but grass and plants.Meaning he didn’t see any animals,because people were just satisfying their needs for right now and weren’t thinking about how it might affect the future.
Question # 2
Why did Wells write this book?
I think Wells wrote this book because he was probably a scientist and was probably wondered what it would be like in the future. Was the future advanced or not advanced, that is why I think Wells wrote this book. I also think he wrote this book to see where his imagination broght him too.
Iagree with Frankie P.3 That the novel was si-fi because people would be more interested in it.
What, if anything, can we learn from the novel and apply today?
That what you expect isnt always going to be true because the time traveler expected the future to be advanced and stuff but what he found out was that the future was accually less advanced than his time because the elios and morlocks didnt know that much about anything for example the elios didnt know about fire and the morlocks couldnt know much either because they lived underground where they could find out about anything.
Chapter X
1. What does the Time Traveller conclude about mankind’s intellectual advancements? Use details and information from the chapter to support your answer.
The Time Traveller conclude about mankind’s intellectual advancements is that mankind’s intelligence highly decreased in the future. Life and property seem to have reached nearly absolute safety. There are no need for employment or social questions. Mankind doesn’t need to learn anything beyond knowing how to survive and stay away from danger.
3. The Time Traveller concludes that humans developed into Eloi and Morlocks because they sought to do what was easy; they had most of their needs met; their conflicts were eliminated. Why is the elimination of conflict and need negative?
The elimination of conflict and need is negative because without conflict and need, our minds and bodies decay over time. Without a drive nor motive, we do not seek advancement. This is the down fall. Without advancement, our culture will cede and wither into dust in time, such as the Elori did. Since the Elori stopped learning and adapting, the were left defenceless against the Morlocks, and lived in fear when they came to consume them. They became like cattle because they got everything the wanted, so they have forsaken the basic skills of life.
I also agree with Danielle B. p.5. I didn’t really understand the question at first, but when I read her answer it made more sense to me.
I agree with Megan and why Wells doesn’t tell us (readers) what happened to the Time Traveller.
I agree with M. Sanchez that we over look the law of nature.
Ch.12 Question
I think Wells doesn’t tell you what happens to the Time Traveler in the end because this whole book has a sense of mystery to it. I think Wells wants us to use our imagination on what we all ready know about the Time Traveler to predict what he does and where he goes.
Chapter 12
Why do you think that Wells doesn’t tell you what happened to the Time Traveler in the end?
Wells doesn’t tell you what happened to the Time Traveler in the end because he wanted to leave the reader thinking. He wanted the reader to make up his/her own opinion as to what happened to The Time Traveler. He is a kind of writer that makes you wonder what’s going to happen next.
frankie per.three I feel the same way you do about why he wrote the book.
#4
The Time Traveler feels thay by eliminating confkict and need is making it as easy as rowwing down the a stream.
sorry april you only pick one from the bottom and post it
April, your supposed to answer the questions below
2)Why did Wells write the book?
I think H.G. Wells wrote the book because he wanted to give his opinion on how he thought the future was going to be. To make it more interesting he made it into a Science-Fiction novel so more people would be interested. Think about it…if you were in the 1890’s and publishe a book all about the future in about 800,000 years, I don’t think anyone would read it, and they would probably call you a quack, insane, etc. But if you made a book about time travel (something most people are interested in) and write about a man going into the future 8000,000 years later, it might do better.
Question for Ch. 12: Why do you think Wells doesn’t tell you what happened to the Time Traveller in the end?
Answer: I think that Wells doesn’t tell us what happned to the Time Traveller in the end because he wants us to think about whats going to happen. Like he tells us that he had a camera with him, so what is he obviously going to do with this camera? Also, he wants us to use our imagination to think what happened to the Time Traveller in the future just like he used his imagination to write the book. Since no one knows what the future holds, it’s your opinion.
Sorry everybody. My computer was kind of slow that day. My little brother got into the computer’s mainframe( I have no idea how he did it) and so my computer showed I only inputed the answer in once when I really put it in three times. Again I apologize.
Q. do we have to do those four questions below questions 10, 11 ,12.
Chapter 10
Q: Why does the time traveler conclude about mannkinds intellectual advancements?
A: The time traveler can conclude about the mankind’s of intellectual advancements that all advancements have slowly regressed over time. There was no technical or mechanical advancements or any one who was educated. There were no new interventions. And also the Eloi has minds oF children or to be specific five year olds.
I agree with Marcus R. because so many things could in fact happen to the Time Traveller.