I. Settings

A. Time- The story takes place in between 1820-800,000.

B. Place- The story takes place in England in future times and underground.

II. Characters

A. The time traveler

1. The time traveler is a strong man in his mid thirties with gray streaks in his brown hair. In chapter two he comes out older because he has been

time traveling.

2. The time traveler is a very smart man who likes to explore the future. He is willing to take twenty mile hikes to find things and explore things.

B. Weena

1. Weena is of a futuristic race. Her race, in the future, knows of no danger so they are all very frail.

2. Weena is a very playful creature. She explores a lot with the time traveler, but runs to him for safety when any threat comes.

C. The Morlocks

1. The morlocks are small white ape like animals. They are very sensitive to light and run away when there is any. They have huge pink-gray eyes because they live underground

2. The morlocks are dangerous carnivorous creatures that eat any and all meat they find. They use the time machine to lure the time traveler in and then attack him to use him as a meal.

III. Plot

A. The story starts off with a different narrator than the rest of the story. The narrator is one of the time traveler’s friends who is also a scientist. They talk about how the time machine works and the time traveler shows him a mini working model of the machine.

B. The time traveler travels almost a million years into earth’s future. When he expects to be greeted by super advanced he is greeted not by humans but by a totally different race. He lives with this race for a while soon figuring out what all their sounds mean. When he sees one of the morlocks at night on the surface he starts to explore more. He goes down into a well to find where the morlocks live and find out more about them.

C. After the morlocks steal the time machine they use it to lure the time traveler. When the time traveler goes to retrieve the machine he is trapped and mobbed by the morlocks. Since they can see in the dark, he is left fumbling to start up the machine. After a while he starts it up and speeds into the future

D. After the time traveler goes into the future he sees the terrible things that happen to our planet. The time traveler sees that everything on the surface is extinct except plant life. He also sees that the day ends up being no longer blue but black. Since he gets sick from time traveling he stops about 900,000 years into the future. Because the sky is black all he can see is the silhouette of a small animal with tentacles, so he speeds back home.

IV. Climax

A. The climax is when the morlocks try to ambush the time traveler. They open the doors to the area where the time machine is kept. Since the time traveler sees no morlocks in the dark he enters without any weapons. To the time travelers demise he has no matches, for light, to protect him. In the end he fights the morlocks and wins by getting his time machine started and bolting into the future.

V. Conflicts

A. Man vs. Society

1. The time traveler is fighting the futuristic society of the monstrous morlocks.

2. The climax is when he fights multiple morlocks at once in the dark of their temple.

VI. Point of View

A. One of the time traveler’s friends in the first chapter of the book tells the story.

B. The rest of the book is told from the point of view of the time traveler

VII. Theme

A. The author tries to show how science can go too far. There are a lot of parts in the book about how the human race started living life like there was no danger and how that was the human races downfall. The whole book tries to show how technological advances can go too far and do more bad than good. The book shows H.G. Well’s concern for everything that our race does. The author compares humans to cows and how we eventually started living life carefree and how nature took us down quickly. We also see in the future, through the eyes of he time traveler, how a race dies quickly by being care free. There is a lot we can realize from the theme of The Time Machine.

VIII. Type of Book

A. The Time Machine is a classic science fiction book.