War of the Worlds FAQ

Okay, this is in reply to the War of the Worlds comment, and I think it's under "Wheeee" or something like that. I have a read the book, and I think I may be able to answer some questions.
Ian said: Don't you wonder what the heck the aliens were trying to grow?
I say: I don't know if this is in the movie as well, but in the book the aliens were just trying to grow Martian vegetables.
Ian said: Or who the Narrator was?
I say: I would like to know that myself. This guy is telling the story of the Martians, but I don't know his name or anything about him. If he said 'my name is Bob' or something, I would probably enjoy the story better. But no, we never find out who the heck he is.
Ian said: I felt the ending was like "oh crap, we've created an antagonist that is too powerful... hmm, lets kill it off with something stupid like the ever ambiguous 'Mother Nature' and provide the audience with no explanation."
I say: Yay, finally something I can help with! War of the Worlds was an analogy. (Apparently HG Wells does that a lot. But more on that later.) In the early twentieth century, (when the book was written) Europeans were the superpower. They had colonies everywhere, and tried to assimilate everyone. It was only natural that they would head to Africa, a continent ripe for the picking, and there were only "savages" to stop them. Stop Europe? A laughable suggestion!
Anyway, they went in to conquer Africa, but were stopped by multiple diseases, such as malaria and yellow fever. A world superpower, held at bay by *gasp* Africa!
HG Wells is poking fun at this situation, by making England (which is where the book is set) the ones being invaded by a seemingly invincible force. And, since England was defeated by diseases, that's how the Martians were defeated, since apparently Martians don't have bacteria on Mars.
Okay, so the other analogy HG Wells made was in the Time Machine, when he was making fun of class distinctions.
Here are some annoying points about The War of the Worlds:
#1: The narrator doesn't have a name. He's a faceless person who I can't relate to.
#2: There are unrealistic human reactions. For example, the Martians decimate a crowd with a heat ray, and the only person the reacts semi normally is the narrator. He runs away. But then it says that there were dead bodies everywhere, but people still come to see the aliens, and don't seem to care that there are dead bodies. And one guy was telling the narrator "my son was one of the dead" with the tone of voice as if he was saying "my son got 100 percent on a test." And we don't see much of people. The most we see is a crazy curate. It's like England has like 0.0001 people per square kilometre.
#3: I don't know whether the giant machines are actual Martians or machines controlled my Martians. The ones at the beginning were grey blobs or something, and then apparently they grew and became metal.
#4: The way HG Wells writes, its hard to understand. I had to read some parts (such as the aliens in the pit killing Ogilvy, and who the heck Ogilvy was, and the description of the Martians/machines) But maybe that's just me.

So anyway, I gotta go because my bladder is bursting. Ciao!