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H.G Wells was born into a low middle class family. He lived a typical life and attended some of the best schools in the area. His mother and father showed him love as a child and supported him in his writing career. How then did he become so pessimistic? Also, why did he express these emotions in his book War of the Worlds? Many people believe H.G Wells’ pessimistic views about nature and the future are due to struggles in his childhood, his struggles with relationships, and beliefs that were planted in him or developed due to other people. “ At the age of 14, H.G Wells became his father’s apprentice at a drapery shop” (Britannica). Wells’ father needed his son to help him overcome the family’s financial losses. During those years, Wells broke his leg in four different places, and he came to a conclusion that nature plays evil tricks on certain people. He gave up on writing after his first novel was not published and decided to go to college to study biology. “When a hemorrhage threatened his life, he decided to try writing again before an early death came upon him.”(Britannica) Wells’ soon after wrote The Time Machine, his first successful novel. He went on to write War of the Worlds. In the novel the main target of the future’s destruction are soldiers and scientists. H.G Wells believed that both society and nature targeted the best people. He felt that only people with authority could be targets for criticism and hatred. In War of the Worlds, the narrator explains that his faith in God is what keeps him from dying.
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