Comparison Of Zero Hour And War Of The Worlds, By Ray Bradbury

Invasion Bradbury and Wells stories are all about Martians invading earth, but, the characters experience it in some similar and different ways. In both stories “Zero Hour” and War of The World’s the authors write about how the Martians take over the earth and what life would be without any humans. Although the characters in “Zero Hour” and The War of the Worlds both deal with alien invasions, the authors don’t envision the same fate for their characters. For “Zero Hour” Mink’s parents hide in the attic and mink is trying to find them for the Martians and mink does end up finding them in the attic, “Footsteps. A little humming sound. The attic lock melted.” “Mom? Dad? Where are you? Peekaboo.” ( 260-261 Ray Bradbury). Similar to Bradbury's “Zero Hour” H.G. Wells War of The World’s has a different fate for his main character, “I have a dim memory of the foot of a Martian coming down within a score of yards of my head, driving straight into the loose gravel, whirling it this way and that and lifting again; of a long suspense, and then of the four carrying the debris of their comrade between them, now clear and then presently faint through a veil of smoke, receding interminably, as it seemed to me, across a
Although “Zero Hour” and War of The World’s are similar in different way they both have different event’s like in “Zero Hour” “Up this way! In the attic! That’s where it is!” Mrs. Morris said. Mr. Morris replied back “It’s not in the attic! It’s outside!” (Bradbury 257). Unlike “Zero Hour”, War of The World’s has a heat ray that the narrator focuses on, “The terrible heat ray was in my mind. To get under water! That was it!. “Get under water!” I shouted, unheeded” (H.G.Wells 269). I concluded that in both stories “Zero Hour” and The War of The World’s both Martian’s want to destroy all life on earth. Additionally, the authors don’t envision the same fate for both their