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Story · Britain · 1895

The Time Machine

The Time Machine

53Watch it awake.

Pretty people are cattle over buried workers, and then the sun dies.

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The review

An inventor rides out of his own year, and the future is not a prize. Pretty people are cattle. Workers live underground. The classes are the warning. Then he goes farther, to a dying earth, and the last picture is the end of the sun. I didn't need a speech pinned on the back.

A teen can take it in a few sittings. I read the underground half after the house was quiet, and it stayed ugly. Don't turn the two peoples into dress-up. One is used. One does the buried work. After that, the sun is finished.

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Keep The Time Machine in the record.

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The glance

Household and Piety and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

  1. 8Industry
  2. 2Household
  3. 4Piety
  4. 7Courage
  5. 8Republic
  6. 3Temperance
  7. 8Truth
  8. 2Stewardship

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

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Black Beauty

65 instead of 53

Black Beauty is still a novel film, and it scores 65 instead of 53. What you gain is stewardship: A child is left a horse's working life and a bill for the whip.

The eight

  1. 8
    Industry

    Workers live underground while pretty people are kept as cattle.

  2. 2
    Household

    No parent, marriage, or child is a life in this future.

  3. 4
    Piety

    No one's conscience stops the class split before it hardens.

  4. 7
    Courage

    He rides past his own century and on to a dying earth.

  5. 8
    Republic

    One class is used as cattle and the other is buried at work.

  6. 3
    Temperance

    The pretty people live idle, fed by someone else's labor.

  7. 8
    Truth

    The pretty surface hides workers living underground.

  8. 2
    Stewardship

    The last picture is a dying earth and the end of the sun.

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Ask a teen which of Wells's future peoples are cattle and which work below.

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Story · Britain · 1815

Emma

Emma

53Watch it awake.

The clever woman is the joke, and the poorer friend is who pays.

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The review

I kept waiting for the clever woman to be right once. She isn't. Emma meddles and hurts a poorer friend, and she is wrong about almost every pair she invents. The joke is on her. A house can read it, including a teen who thinks being sharp is the same thing as seeing.

The work she will not do is see people as they are. That lands harder because the friend is poorer and has less room to step out of the plans. I finished on the hurt, not on Emma's wit. If the house reads it, stay with the friend she damages.

Journal

Keep Emma in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 53. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Courage and Stewardship are the thin ones.

  1. 3Industry
  2. 7Household
  3. 5Piety
  4. 3Courage
  5. 6Republic
  6. 6Temperance
  7. 8Truth
  8. 4Stewardship

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Sense and Sensibility

68 instead of 53

Sense and Sensibility is still a novel film, and it scores 68 instead of 53. What you gain is industry: Once the estate is the son's, Elinor's work is carrying the household.

The eight

  1. 3
    Industry

    The work she will not do is see people as they are.

  2. 7
    Household

    She invents other people's marriages and hurts a poorer friend.

  3. 5
    Piety

    She is wrong about nearly every pair, and the joke is on her.

  4. 3
    Courage

    Emma risks little; the poorer friend is the one who gets hurt.

  5. 6
    Republic

    A richer woman meddles, and a poorer friend pays for the plans.

  6. 6
    Temperance

    Arranging lives is the habit the book laughs at, not a prize.

  7. 8
    Truth

    Almost every pair she invents is false, and a friend is hurt.

  8. 4
    Stewardship

    What she leaves the poorer friend is the hurt of a false plan.

Live historically

Before you arrange a poorer friend's life, write down what you actually know about her.

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Finding the page.

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The next title is the one nearest what this house keeps, then the measure where it is thin. Nothing here is a crowd. It does not leave this device.

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