Before the Journey Pt 1
Where does the Time Traveller introduce the concept of time travel to others?
At a weekly dinner party
How would you describe the Time Traveller's appearance when he comes back from his journey? (During Chapter 3)
Messy, exhausted, battered
The name of the creatures the Time Traveller (first) meets when he travels to the future.
Eloi
What is the name of the Eloi that the Time Traveller befriends?
Weena
The name of the creatures who live underground
Morlocks
According to the Time Traveller, what is the fourth dimension of space?
Time
What other characters are present when the Time Traveller tells his story?
The Editor
The Journalist
The Medical Man
The Silent Man
The Narrator
What are the names of the creatures that live in the underworld?
Morlocks
How does the Time Traveller meet Weena?
He saves her from drowning
What has the Time Traveller seen about the Morlocks so far?
1. Have a lot of strength
2. Look animalistic
3. White fur
4. May be another evolutionary form of human
The first three chapters of the stories set up the bigger story at hand, known as this literary device
Frame Narrative
How does the Time Traveller make his time machine work?
Pulling on a lever
The Time Traveller compares the Eloi to what in terms of their behavior?
5-year-old children
How does Weena behave around the Time Traveller?
In terms of social class structure, what social classes are the Eloi and Morlocks supposed to represent?
The high class and the low class (or the capitalists and the workers)
In Chapter 1, what does the Time Traveller use to prove the possibility of time travel to the others present?
A smaller model Time Machine
What year does the Time Traveller travel to?
802,701
What is the food source for the Eloi?
Fruit
True or False: There are such things as Eloi households and families
False, Eloi live together in a communal setting
Why does the Time Traveller feel that the Eloi have become unintelligent, lazy, and simple-minded?
Humans became too comfortable: Life was made so easy to the point that mankind didn't have challenge
True or False: All of the Time Traveller's friends believe in his time machine idea.
False. None of them do
When he first arrives in the future, what does the Time Traveller notice about the place he's in?
1. Everything seems perfect
2. There appears to be no bad in the world
3. There is a white sphinx present
Name any characteristic of the Eloi
- About 4 ft tall
- Wearing a purple tunic
- Sandals/buskins on his feet
- Legs bare to the knees
- Head bare
- Very beautiful and graceful
- Indescribably frail
- Flushed face
- Child-like/Innocent looking
- Bored easily
- Tend to wander
- Like flowers
How do the Eloi first approach the Time Traveller?
1. With curiosity
2. They're friendly with him
3. They throw flowers around him
True or False: The events of The Time Machine show a message from H.G. Wells that the social classes should have a wide margin of separation between them
False