invisible man lesson 3

1. THE INVISIBLE MAN
LESSON 3
BY PRATYUSH

2. Herbert George
Wells
(1866-
1946)
Herbert George Wells was born in 1866 in
Bromley, England into a family where there was
little money to spare; his father ran a small shop
and played cricket professionally and his mother
worked as a housekeeper. The family’s financial
situation meant that Wells had to work from the
age of fourteen to support himself through
education. His success at school won him a free
place to study at a college of science in London,
after which he became a science teacher. His
poor health made life difficult, though, and he
struggled to keep his full-time job while trying to
write in his spare time.

3. MAIN EVENTS OF CHAPTER 3
 Soon the stranger luggage arrived
 Luggage consisted of trunks , a box of big and fat books, crates, boxes and cases
containing object packed in straw and glass bottels.
 The cart of the delivery man, Fearenside, was filled to capacity.
 Fearenside owned a dog who growled savagely and jumped and gripped the stranger’s leg
and also ripped off his trouser.
 Fearenside used his whip to control the dog .

4.  The stranger rushed into the inn and into his room to reshape himself in a solid appearance as he
looked hollow.
 Mr . Hall rushed to the stranger’s room to know if he had been bitten and needed some help
 Mr . Hall saw a bizzare thing .
 He was struck violently and pushed back.
 All this was done so that he could see nothing clearly.
 Mr. hall was amazed and confused.

5.  The stranger rushed into the inn and into his room to reshape himself in a solid appearance as he
looked hollow.
 Mr . Hall rushed to the stranger’s room to know if he had been bitten and needed some help
 Mr . Hall saw a bizzare thing .
 He was struck violently and pushed back.
 All this was done so that he could see nothing clearly.
 Mr. hall was amazed and confused.

6.  The stranger soon reappeared with the changed trouser and ordered to bring rest of the luggage to his
room.
 The stranger unlocked the crates very eagerly scattering the straw carelessly on the carpet.
 There came out bottles of different sizes and shapes containing powders,coloured and white
fluids, bottles labelled poison , wine bottles,salad oils bottles and so on.
 He put them in a row wherever he found space.
 The room looked as chemist’s shop . Then came out many test tubes and carefully packed balance from
the boxes .

7.  When Mrs. Hall took his dinner to him , he was busy in his
work, pouring little drops out of the bottles into test tube.
 Mrs. Hall saw him without his glasses and she felt that his eye
sockets were extraordinarily hollow .
 He asked her that she should not enter without knocking.
 He assured her that he would pay for any damage done to the room
and other accessories.
 People gossiped about the stranger.
 Fearenside, the cab driver said that the man must be a ’piebald’, all
black and white in patches

8. GLOSSARY
 Thaw a period of warm
weather.
 Slush watery mud.
 Sniffing investigating.
 Dilettante carelessly.
 Bristle react angrily.
 Growl make low sound.
 Flanking side.

9.  Rip tear.
 Yelping crying sharply.
 Dismay wonder.
 Pansy a plant in rich colour.
 Rapid quick.
 Indecipherable not able to read.
 Concussion confusion due to
blow.

10.  Fatuities silly and pointless.
 Cauterised burnt.
 Chiffonnier low cupboard.
 Hollow empty.
 Exasperation irritation.
 Resolute firm.
 Pacing moving .

11.  Athwart from side to side .
 Hobnails heavy headed nails.
 Soliloquy speaking to oneself.
 Crepitation cracking sound.
 Piebald having irregular
patches of two
colour.

12. QUESTIONS
 The room looked like a shop of chemist.
How?
 What made the stranger so aggressive?
 Why did the dog pounced on the stranger?
 What made the stranger to come out to help
the stranger?
 What incident made the stranger more alert
and people suspicious of his identity?
 Why did the stranger look insensitive?