The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells first serialised in 1897 in the UK by Pearson's Magazine and in the US by Cosmopolitan magazine. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann of London. Written between 1895 and 1897,[2] it is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race.[3] The novel is the first-person narrative of both an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and of his younger brother in London as southern England is invaded by Martians. The novel is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon.[4]
The plot has been related to invasion literature of the time. The novel has been variously interpreted as a commentary on evolutionary theory, British imperialism, and generally Victorian superstitions, fears and prejudices. At the time of publication, it was classified as a scientific romance, like Wells's earlier novel The Time Machine. The War of the Worlds has been both popular (having never been out of print) and influential, spawning half a dozen feature films, radio dramas, a record album, various comic book adaptations, a television series, and sequels or parallel stories by other authors. It has even influenced the work of scientists, notably Robert Goddard, who (inspired by the book) invented both the liquid fuelled rocket and multistage rocket, which resulted in the Apollo 11 moon landing 71 years later.[5]<span>[6]</span>
The answer is the central idea
The emotion the narrator in Living to Tell the Tale mainly feels toward the thief is D: empathy.
In <em>Living to Tell the Tale</em>, García Márquez makes an autobiographical recount of all the characters that has been significant in his life. He starts writing this book when he finds out he has cancer and he thinks it is important to tell the readers about all the people that has, in some way or another, changed his life.
When he remembers the events in his short story <em>La Siesta del Martes</em>, which describes a woman arriving in town with her daughter to put flowers on the grave of her son who had been shot while attempting to break into García Márquez's aunt's house, he says he feels like if he was the thief. He reflect's himself in the thief. His autobiographical self is beginning to live the life of the characters ins his fiction.
