Question

Which statement best describes the difference between these versions?

Answer 1

Answer:

The radio adaptation's tone is more urgent than the novel's tone.

Explanation:

In the novel excerpt from H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds, the passage talks bout the arrival of the aliens as "an ordinary falling star" and the people hardly minding it's occurrence. Even though the narrator thinks "hundreds must have seen it", it seemed to cause no panic among the people.

But the radio adaptation by Howard E. Koch of the same novel shows a news reporter interrupting a "dance music" to report about the "explosions of incandescent gas, occurring at regular intervals on the planet Mars". This, along with the speech reporting voice will sound more dangerous than the mere narration in the novel version. The tone in the radio adaptation presents a more urgent and serious tone while the novel's tone is more relaxed and even the people seem unfazed by it.