Both Bradbury and Wells’ stories contain Martians that have a plan of invading earth but with their own way of doing so. For example, “Drill says in order to make a good fight you go to have a new way of surprising people. And they couldn’t figure a way to surprise Earth. Until, one day, they thought of children!” The author is saying that the Martians in “Zero Hour” didn’t know a way to invade earth so instead they got in contact with children since they’re more vulnerable and easier to take advantage of. Another example that supports the main idea is, “Quickly, one after the other, one, two, three, four of the armored appeared, far away over the little trees, across the flat meadows that stretched towards Chertsey, and striding hurriedly towards the river. instead of …show more content…
The first of evidence that supports this claim is, “Ka Krake Fa Booom” All the events in the story including the disappearing yo-yo didn’t convince the adults it was just a game so it led to the explosion if they knew it was more serious and payed more attention the signs it wouldn’t have led to an explosion. Similarly, “The houses caved in as they dissolved as its touch, and darted out flames; the trees changed to fire with a roar.” What the author is showing in this event is that it started off when they invaded their small town with batteries. Soon after it led to the Martians using their heat ray to burn through their town