How influential can words be on a situation? Can certain adjectives completely change a setting? H.G. Wells does a great job of using certain words in his story The Time Machine that paint a picture for the reader that is really so far from what he is really saying. Wells successfully does this throughout his story; he uses words like light, dark, evil, harmless, human, and inhumane, when in reality it has nothing to …showed first 75 words of 636 total…

…showed last 75 words of 636 total…making the Morlachs look like nothing slaves that spend there meaningless time down below working for the great Eloi above, when really the Eloi are simply the Morlach’s cattle. They grow the Eloi, make them healthy and then feast upon them. Everyday we paint pictures in each other’s minds with all the big words and metaphors that we use, when really we are trying to tell a simple story, with a simple idea.