They were surprised but grateful to see their visitors
Wells calls it "The Thing" to give readers the impression that it's almost too terrible to name or describe.
"...came the Thing they were sending to us, the Thing that was to bring so much struggle and calamity and death to the earth."
The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells.
it is one of the earliest stories to describe a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is narrated in the first person point of view.
Because those were the so-called Roaring Twenties. That was the period of extreme wealth, both in the sense of money, and art and culture. Those were the "crazy years", of industrial growth, changes in lifestyle and cure, and of course, the blossoming of jazz music. In that way, the spirit of the whole era was crazy for parties, and thus, Gatsby's parties exemplified exactly that.
Poets use of language give four points from each poem?
All together, the word "brusquely" means: abrupt in manner/blunt/rough.
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-Anime