Resumo de The Time Machine

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 1895

The Time Traveler created by the author questions his friends about the possibilityof moving through time in some way. They do not agree with him. He does not tell them that he has already constructed a time machine that allows a person to travel to the future or to the past. He tells them that he has been doing research on the scientific belief that that time is a different kind of space.

While they are waiting for dinner to be served, he slips away and takes a trip in his time machine. The machine takes him farther than he had planned and he finds a society where the people have changed into strange beings. He is shocked and doesn't understand what may have caused such distruction of the old way of life and destruction.

He is immediately surrounded by beings that act as happy children but are strangly shaped and have a peculiar speech pattern and language completly unknown to him. They seem to welcome him and he spends time with him. He finds that at night they sleep in a large, well-constructed building. He soon realizes they have great fear about the dark. After he saves onenamed Weenafrom drowning, she accompanies him everywhere.

During the first night his time machine disappears.He had removed the controls for the sake of security.
Later he sleeps where he can see at night and notices white beings moving around.

One day he finds a hole in the ground under a pile of concrete and aluminum after seeing one of the white beings disappear in that area. He climbs down into it and it is darker and darker as he moves downward to the bottom of the hole. When he uses matches to see around him, he sees a cave and begins to follow it until he sees movement and begins to be touched by many of them. When he strikes a match, they run away because they cannot see in light. Their eyes buldge like fish deep in the darkness of the sea. He sees something strange: bones from their meal. He turns to get out of the cave.

He realizes that they had taken his time machine down into the cave. Later, he decides to walk to a building that he can see in the distance. With the very small being, Weena, he goes through a forest to get there where he finds a very old library where he finds books that have deterioated to dust, a chemistry lab and finds camphor that is flammable. The camphor is flamable. They stay overnight there.

As they return the following day through the thick forest, he encounters many white creatures who tug at him and grab Weena and take her away. Then, he realizes what their foodstuff is. To escape from them, he hurries to an open space, starts a fire with camphor and wood. Strangly, the beings run toward it and into the fire.

He discerns that the above-ground and underground must have been of two types of beings. He compares that with English society where the wealthy high-minded people ignore commoners and disappear from them, creating a high class and low class society used only when needed for a purpose. He likens the beings to them. He hates the division of English society.

One morning his time machine is placed where he landed. Back at his home, he tells his friends about his experience. They don't know if they can believe him.

Days later the Time Traveler disappears and never returned.

The storyteller, one of the friends muses that he may have traveled to a dangerous time in the past and was killed. He believes because Time Traveler had given him 2 strange white flowers that Weena had put into his pocket. Though shrivelled and brown, they are witness of the truth about his friend.

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