Julianne Clarke

Biology

9 June, 03:03

The immediate pressure of necessity has brightened their

intellects, enlarged their powers, and hardened their

hearts. And looking across space with instruments, and

intelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they

see, at its nearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles

sunward of them, a morning star of hope, our own warmer

planet, green with vegetation and grey with water, with a

cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility, with glimpses

through its drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of

populous country and narrow, navy-crowded seas,

-H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, 1898

What can you infer about the narrator from this passage of The War of the

Worlds?

O A. He is smart and educated.

O B. He doesn't care about Earth.

C. He believes in God.

O D. He is afraid of the Martians.