THE INVISIBLE MANLESSON 3BY PRATYUSH

Herbert George Wells

(1866-1946)

Herbert George Wells was born in 1866 in Bromley, England into a family where there was little money to spare; his father ran a small shop and played cricket professionally and his mother worked as a housekeeper. The family’s financial situation meant that Wells had to work from the age of fourteen to support himself through education. His success at school won him a free place to study at a college of science in London, after which he became a science teacher. His poor health made life difficult, though, and he struggled to keep his full-time job while trying to write in his spare time.

MAIN EVENTS OF CHAPTER 3

Soon the stranger luggage arrived Luggage consisted of trunks , a box of big and fat books, crates, boxes and

cases containing object packed in straw and glass bottels.

The cart of the delivery man, Fearenside, was filled to capacity.

Fearenside owned a dog who growled savagely and jumped and gripped the stranger’s leg and also ripped off his trouser.

Fearenside used his whip to control the dog .

The stranger rushed into the inn and into his room to reshape himself in a solid appearance as he looked hollow.

Mr . Hall rushed to the stranger’s room to know if he had been bitten and needed some help

Mr . Hall saw a bizzare thing .

He was struck violently and pushed back.

All this was done so that he could see nothing clearly.

Mr. hall was amazed and confused.

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The stranger rushed into the inn and into his room to reshape himself in a solid appearance as he looked hollow.

Mr . Hall rushed to the stranger’s room to know if he had been bitten and needed some help

Mr . Hall saw a bizzare thing .

He was struck violently and pushed back.

All this was done so that he could see nothing clearly.

Mr. hall was amazed and confused.

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The stranger soon reappeared with the changed trouser and ordered to bring rest of the luggage to his room.

The stranger unlocked the crates very eagerly scattering the straw carelessly on the carpet.

There came out bottles of different sizes and shapes containing powders,coloured and white fluids, bottles labelled poison , wine bottles,salad oils bottles and so on.

He put them in a row wherever he found space.

The room looked as chemist’s shop . Then came out many test tubes and carefully packed balance from the boxes .

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When Mrs. Hall took his dinner to him , he was busy in his work, pouring little drops out of the bottles into test tube.

Mrs. Hall saw him without his glasses and she felt that his eye sockets were extraordinarily hollow .

He asked her that she should not enter without knocking.

He assured her that he would pay for any damage done to the room and other accessories.

People gossiped about the stranger.

Fearenside, the cab driver said that the man must be a ’piebald’, all black and white in patches

GLOSSARY

Thaw a period of warm weather.

Slush watery mud. Sniffing investigating. Dilettante carelessly. Bristle react angrily. Growl make low sound.

Flanking side.

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Rip tear. Yelping crying sharply. Dismay wonder. Pansy a plant in rich

colour. Rapid quick. Indecipherable not able to read. Concussion confusion due to

blow.

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Fatuities silly and pointless.

Cauterised burnt. Chiffonnier low cupboard. Hollow empty. Exasperation irritation. Resolute firm. Pacing moving .

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Athwart from side to side .

Hobnails heavy headed nails.

Soliloquy speaking to oneself.

Crepitation cracking sound.

Piebald having irregular patches of two colour.

QUESTIONS

The room looked like a shop of chemist. How?

What made the stranger so aggressive? Why did the dog pounced on the

stranger? What made the stranger to come out to

help the stranger? What incident made the stranger more

alert and people suspicious of his identity?

Why did the stranger look insensitive?