My Book Review- The Time Machine

I have read the book ‘The Time Machine’ written by H. G. Wells. This book is about a man named ‘Time Traveller’ inventing a time machine and traveling into the future. He lost his time machine and he tries to find it so that he could go back to the year where he lived. He meets a creature named Weena, and she helps him get through the troubles and leads him to where his time machine is. Time Traveller and Weena get attacked by some carnivorous creatures and Weena disappears. Finally, he finds his time machine, and he travels to another year. Even though he goes back to where he was, he packs all the researches and his camera, and he leaves for another journey to the future.

I really liked and enjoyed reading this book because H. G. Wells was such a wonderful descriptor. He was able to describe really well about the strange creatures that lived in the future time and food they ate like the fruits. I also liked the part where Time Traveller is attacked by the carnivorous monsters because I could imagine him fighting and suffering in the darkness with the monsters seizing his neck and legs. I strongly recommend this book to all scientific fiction lovers and those who love to read novels.

There was a sub-plot in the story which was becoming friends with Weena. After losing his time machine, Time Traveller was left alone with some strange creatures that spoke languages that he did not understand. He becomes more and more tired and feels lonely everyday. Then, when Weena was with him, he felt more secured and he had someone to talk with everyday. Weena also lead him to the truths behind all the secrets in that simple yet complex society. When she mysteriously disappears after they get attacked by the carnivorous creatures, Time Traveller again starts to feel empty and alone in the strange world.

When I read other people’s spiritual dimension essay, most of them said that H. G. Wells is not a religious person because he believes in some certain things that the religious people do not believe in. In the book of ‘The Time Machine’, H. G. Wells presented theories about traveling through the time dimension, and he reveals his thoughts about the ‘evolutionary theory’ through the creatures that lived in the future- the Elois and the Morlocks. So I believe and agree to the ideas that H. G. Wells is not a religious person.