English

Joslyn Gamble

19 September, 10:08

What is most likely the purpose of this passage?

to inform

to persuade

to entertain

I was at home at that hour and writing in my study; and

although my French windows face towards Ottershaw

and the blind was up (for I loved in those days to look up

at the night sky), I saw nothing of it. Yet this strangest of

all things that ever came to earth from outer space must

have fallen while I was sitting there, visible to me had I

only looked up as it passed. Some of those who saw its

flight say it travelled with a hissing sound. I myself heard

nothing of that

- The War of the Worlds,

H. G. Wells