The Deputation Sparknotes

I really liked this story. I think i liked it because I am into that kind of genre. I like aliens.
2. This genre was fiction. I think it is a horror type of fiction.
3. The exposition of this story was where the narrator saw the Martians at first, in their ship. The rising action I thought was where the humans started waving the white flag to surrender. The climax was when they saw the green smoke and suddenly everyone started catching on fire and dying. The falling action was when the fire passed the narrator and didn't kill him. The denouement was when he was describing everything that happens. How he felt about being alone and how the fire didn't kill him.
4. The protagonist was the narrator; the story never said his name. The antagonists were the Martians.
5. I think the most important trait the main character has is courage. He also has other traits. He is also very scared.
6. There is only one setting that took place. It was on the street with everyone. There were a lot of people watching and there were soldiers. There was a big pit that smoke was coming out from. Everyone could see the Martians ship.
I think the author chose to emphasize certain details was so that he could make the story interesting. Such as “This was the Deputation. There had been a hasty consultation, and since the Martians were evidently, in spite of their repulsive forms, intelligent creatures, it had been resolved to show them, by approaching them with signals, that we too were intelligent. Flutter, flutter, went the flag, first to the right, then to the left. It was too far for me to recognize anyone there, but afterwards I learned that Ogilvy, Stent, and Henderson were with others in this attempt at communication. This little group had in its advance dragged inward, so to speak, the 3 circumference of the now almost complete circle of people, and a number of dim black figures followed it at discreet