HG Wells
Term Paper Outline
Thesis Statement: In The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells uses characterization in order to challenge common perspectives on what life will be like in the future.
I. Introduction
A. Quote/ Hook: Flying cars, colossal buildings, intricate and fascinating clothes and devices are all what the average person thinks the future will hold for us.
B. Evolution: change in the gene pool of a population from generation to generation by such processes as mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift.
C. Darwinism: the Darwinian theory that that species originate by descent, with variation, from parent forms, through the natural selection of those individuals best adapted for the reproductive success of their kind.
D. (Thesis): In The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells uses characterization in order to challenge common views on evolution and future existence.
II. Author Biography
A. “Herbert George Wells was born on September 21, 1866, in Bromley, Kent, in England. His father was a shop keeper and a professional cricket player with the Bromley team; his mother was a part-time housekeeper.”(The War of the Worlds)
B. “Wells, however, used his circumstances as a spur rather than a crutch, reading voraciously as a child in an effort to create a better life for himself. At sixteen, Wells became a student teacher at Midhurst Grammar School and was later awarded a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London. T.H. Huxley, who, next to Darwin, was the foremost evolutionary theorist of his day, was Wells’s biology teacher, and he helped to shape Well’s thinking about humankind’s past and future.”(The Time Machine)
C. “Its success (The Time Machine) gave him the confidence to pursue his strategy of using science fiction to dramatize scientific concepts such as the fourth dimension, Darwin’s theory of natural selection, and Marx’s theory of class struggle.”(The War of the Worlds)
D. “In 1891, while making
Thesis Statement: In The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells uses characterization in order to challenge common perspectives on what life will be like in the future.
I. Introduction
A. Quote/ Hook: Flying cars, colossal buildings, intricate and fascinating clothes and devices are all what the average person thinks the future will hold for us.
B. Evolution: change in the gene pool of a population from generation to generation by such processes as mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift.
C. Darwinism: the Darwinian theory that that species originate by descent, with variation, from parent forms, through the natural selection of those individuals best adapted for the reproductive success of their kind.
D. (Thesis): In The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells uses characterization in order to challenge common views on evolution and future existence.
II. Author Biography
A. “Herbert George Wells was born on September 21, 1866, in Bromley, Kent, in England. His father was a shop keeper and a professional cricket player with the Bromley team; his mother was a part-time housekeeper.”(The War of the Worlds)
B. “Wells, however, used his circumstances as a spur rather than a crutch, reading voraciously as a child in an effort to create a better life for himself. At sixteen, Wells became a student teacher at Midhurst Grammar School and was later awarded a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London. T.H. Huxley, who, next to Darwin, was the foremost evolutionary theorist of his day, was Wells’s biology teacher, and he helped to shape Well’s thinking about humankind’s past and future.”(The Time Machine)
C. “Its success (The Time Machine) gave him the confidence to pursue his strategy of using science fiction to dramatize scientific concepts such as the fourth dimension, Darwin’s theory of natural selection, and Marx’s theory of class struggle.”(The War of the Worlds)
D. “In 1891, while making