When fear has gripped him he stumbles to get away from the pit where the cylinder is. He returns home and tells his wife to go stay at her mother’s. When the narrator returns to the crash site, he sees that the Martians have excavated from their pit, a giant walking machine of destruction. “And this Thing I saw! How can I describe it? A monstrous tripod, higher than many houses, striding over the young pine trees, and smashing them aside in its career; a walking engine of glittering metal, striding now across the heather; articulate ropes of steel dangling from it, and the clattering tumult of its passage mingling with the riot of the thunder” (HG Wells 1898). With his wife at her mother’s, he immediately flees the area and tries to cross the Wey Riverin a ferry. The machines had caught up with the ferries and destroyed them while the narrator was thrown from the boat. As he is swimming to the shore the water gets extremely hot because one of the machines sticks its heat ray in the water. The narrator is nearly burned. “And then, very slowly, I realized that by a miracle I had escaped” (HG Wells 1898). The narrator is alone from there on. Days after, he does not hear any sound from the Martians. He goes to look outside and they are all dead. The Martians had us beat in every aspect, except for the fact that we had immunities that they had not built up yet. We had proven our right to dwell on earth. So the ordinary sicknesses of human disease caused them to die and stop their mad destruction of the earth. There are many differences between the book and the 2005 Spielberg movie. In the movie the narrator is divorced and has two kids. Also, the Martians do not come down in a cylinder. They come in strikes of lightening. It is like they get zapped down to their walking machines. One man in the movie suggests that the Martians had planted their machinery on earth millions of years ago when there were no humans on the planet. In the movie the narrator and his kids...